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First practice cut short at Canadian GP due to local security camera issue
MONTREAL - The first practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix barely started before it was cut short due to local security camera issues around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The FIA announced the ...
Jun 16, 2023
Manitoba RCMP, community leaders look to Saskatchewan after deadly crash
The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies. Fifte...
Jun 16, 2023
Surrey, B.C., to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions
SURREY, B.C. - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars. Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she...
Jun 16, 2023
Surrey, B.C., to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions
SURREY, B.C. - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars. Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she...
Jun 16, 2023
How ground-penetrating radar is used to find unmarked graves at residential schools
OTTAWA - Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves have encountered a rising number of individuals questioning, or outright denying, that children disappeared or died in residential schools...
Jun 16, 2023
B.C.'s largest wildfire still threatens, as conditions elsewhere ease
VANCOUVER - Rain and cooler weather over much of British Columbia has prompted two fire centres in the southern and central Interior to roll back campfire bans. The Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres s...
Jun 16, 2023
Abortion providers in North Carolina file federal lawsuit challenging state's new restrictions
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Abortion providers in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Friday that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the dwi...
Jun 16, 2023
House of Commons passes motion to permanently allow virtual attendance, voting
OTTAWA - The House of Commons passed a motion Thursday evening to keep hybrid workplace rules adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This means members of Parliament can attend sittings and committee m...
Jun 16, 2023
Canada must combat residential school denialism, special interlocutor's report says
OTTAWA - The independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves says "urgent consideration" should be given to legal mechanisms as a way for Canada to combat residential school denialism. Kimberly Mu...
Jun 16, 2023
Truck driver guilty of killing 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue in deadliest attack on Jews in US history
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A truck driver who expressed hated of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antise...
Jun 16, 2023