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Newly appointed high performance director looks forward to Rugby Canada challenge
Stephen Aboud arrives as Rugby Canada's new high performance director with a glowing endorsement, albeit from his wife. "He makes others look good," says Olive. Aboud also gets rave reviews from outsi...
Jun 14, 2023
Seamus O'Regan gives impassioned defence of global LGBTQ labour rights
OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan spoke strongly in favour of keeping LGBTQ rights enshrined in labour standards this week while a United Nations agency faced a push to remove them. Some...
Jun 14, 2023
Canadian sim racers vie for chance to play F1 champion Max Verstappen at Grand Prix
MONTREAL - A video game is taking Mikel Cunningham somewhere he's never been before. The 30-year-old gamer from Windsor, Ont., is going to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend after finishing top five...
Jun 14, 2023
Deportations for international students caught in fraud scheme put on hold
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says deportation orders for international students caught up in a fraud scheme have been put on hold while a task force investigates each case. Hundreds of st...
Jun 14, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Canada halting activity at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada will halt all government-led activity at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. This comes after a Canadian citizen resigned from the financi...
Jun 14, 2023
First Nation in Manitoba celebrates Whitecloud, Golden Knights win for Stanley Cup
MASKAWATA, Man. - The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba is celebrating one of its own after Zach Whitecloud of the Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup. The First Nation says Whitecloud and t...
Jun 14, 2023
CP NewsAlert: B.C. provides universal coverage for opioid treatments
VICTORIA - British Columbia says it is providing universal coverage for opioid agonist treatments that help people with substance use disorders, making it the first province in Canada to do so. More c...
Jun 14, 2023
B.C. school district bans man who queried gender of girl, 9, at track meet
KELOWNA, B.C. - A man has been banned from events at a British Columbia school district after a mother said he interrupted a track meet to wrongly suggest her nine-year-old daughter was transgender an...
Jun 14, 2023
B.C. school district bans man who queried gender of girl, 9, at track meet
KELOWNA, B.C. - A man has been banned from events at a British Columbia school district after a mother said he interrupted a track meet to wrongly suggest her nine-year-old daughter was transgender an...
Jun 14, 2023
'Keep fighting': Ukrainian soldiers continue battle with Russia despite low morale
KYIV, Ukraine - The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has left many Ukrainian soldiers feeling war weary but unwilling or unable to give up the fight. Artem Baulin, a junior sergeant from Ky...
Jun 14, 2023