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Minister links chronic pain with toxic drug overdoses, commits $5M to pain network
VANCOUVER - The federal government is putting $5 million toward chronic pain resources in what Carolyn Bennett, minister of mental health and addictions, says is part of an effort to help stop people ...
Nov 07, 2022
Robertson, MacKinnon and Karlsson named NHL three stars of the week
NEW YORK - Dallas Stars winger Jason Robertson, Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon and San Jose Sharks defenceman Erik Karlsson have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Robertson sco...
Nov 07, 2022
PM free to reopen Constitution if he has problem with notwithstanding clause: Ford
OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is free to reopen talks with the provinces about the notwithstanding clause and the Constitution, though he'd recommend against it...
Nov 07, 2022
Arctic chill, more snow for parts of B.C., following powerful weekend storm
VANCOUVER - Repair crews have made progress restoring electricity to the hundreds of thousands of British Columbia homes that were blacked out during powerful weekend storms, but Environment Canada sa...
Nov 07, 2022
John Lennon's killer says there was "evil in my heart"
The man who gunned down John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building in 1980 told a parole board that he knew it was wrong to kill the beloved former Beatle, but that he was seeking fame a...
Nov 07, 2022
Officials: US aid worker shot dead in Baghdad in rare attack
BAGHDAD (AP) - Assailants shot dead an American aid worker in Baghdad on Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, two police officials said. The man was shot as he...
Nov 07, 2022
Judo Canada signs on to federal government's Abuse-Free Sport program
MONTREAL - Judo Canada says it's joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government's new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport. Starting on Jan. 2, Judo Canada and its stakeho...
Nov 07, 2022
Snowfall warning calls for more snow & changing driving conditions
NANAIMO - An overnight skiff of snow has arrived with the promise of more to come.Some light flurries in the Nanaimo region occurred overnight Monday, Nov. 7 with Environment Canada calling for upward...
Nov 07, 2022
Canada camp in Bahrain 'devastated' by news of goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau's broken leg
Canada's first training session Monday at a pre-World Cup training camp in Bahrain was overshadowed with the panful news that goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was back in the U.S., recovering from surgery to...
Nov 07, 2022
Feds hold groundbreaking ceremony for Moderna's mRNA vaccine factory in Montreal area
LAVAL, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today took part today in a groundbreaking ceremony for biotechnology company Moderna's new mRNA vaccine factory in Laval, Que., a suburb of Montreal. The fa...
Nov 07, 2022