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Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is hoping that launching an effort to build roads and bridges can help to unite Democrats and Republicans in a time of sharp partisan divisions. Biden met with lawmake...
Feb 11, 2021
New trial in ex-football hero's killing can't be for murder
NEW ORLEANS - The new trial for the man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 shooting death of a former NFL player following a traffic dispute cannot include a murder charge, a Louisiana judge has ru...
Feb 11, 2021
Canadian snowboarder Eliot Grondin wins bronze at world championship
IDRE FJLL, Sweden - Canada's Eliot Grondin has captured a bronze medal at the world snowboard cross championship. The 19-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., finished behind winner Lucas Eguibar of Spain...
Feb 11, 2021
Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada set to more than quadruple next week
OTTAWA - A month-long slowdown in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the mi...
Feb 11, 2021
Island Health suffers worst year ever amid fatal overdose epidemic
NANAIMO - 2020 was a brutal year in the fight against the ongoing overdose epidemic. B.C.'s chief coroner Lisa LaPointe announced more than 1,700 fatally overdosed in B.C. in 2020, making it the deadl...
Feb 11, 2021
Canadian Press NewsAlert: B.C. sets record for most over overdose deaths in a year
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's chief coroner says the province recorded the most deaths ever in a single year due to an unnatural cause, with 1,716 lives lost to illicit drug overdoses in 2020. Lisa L...
Feb 11, 2021
Canadian Press NewsAlert: B.C. sets record for most over overdose deaths in a year
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's chief coroner says the province recorded the most deaths ever in a single year due to an unnatural cause, with 1,716 lives lost to illicit drug overdoses in 2020. Lisa L...
Feb 11, 2021
Feds roll out promised funding for LGBTQ groups to 76 organizations
OTTAWA - Seventy-six LGBTQ projects in Canada have received $15 million in federal money.The money follows up on a promise in the 2019 federal budget to set up a fund to encourage and support the deve...
Feb 11, 2021
Montreal mayor, police chief announce new anti-gun squad, following rise in violence
Montreal's mayor and its police chief are announcing a new team of investigators who will target weapon traffickers, following a rise in gun-related crime across parts of the city. The new police unit...
Feb 11, 2021
O'Toole pushes U.S. envoy to Canada to preserve Line 5, Keystone XL pipelines
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole urged the acting American ambassador to Canada to tell Washington to preserve the Line 5 pipeline to the United States. O'Toole told Katherine Brucker that he...
Feb 11, 2021