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Liberal minister promises plan on Access to Information as MPs highlight woes
OTTAWA - Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says she hopes to share a plan in coming months for improving the key federal transparency law and how it is managed. Fortier is telling a House of Commo...
Apr 18, 2023
Auditor general 'assessing' mandate in terms of Trudeau Foundation ask to investigate
OTTAWA - The federal auditor general's office says it is still "assessing" its mandate as it relates to a request from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation to investigate its handling of two donation...
Apr 18, 2023
Canadian men to open this summer's Gold Cup on home soil at Toronto's BMO Field
Canada will open this summer's Gold Cup in Toronto against a yet-to-be decided qualifying team before heading to Houston to complete Group D play against Guatemala and Cuba. The 47th-ranked Canada men...
Apr 18, 2023
Cheer athlete given lifetime ban for using and trafficking cocaine
OTTAWA - A cheer athlete and athlete support person, has been handed a lifetime ban for multiple anti-doping rule violations, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced Tuesday. The ban is retr...
Apr 18, 2023
4 fatally shot in Maine home, followed by gunfire on highway
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) - Four people were fatally shot in a Maine home in a crime that was linked to gunfire that erupted later Tuesday on a busy interstate highway about 25 miles away, leaving three pe...
Apr 18, 2023
Here's what the looming public-service strike would look like for hybrid workers
OTTAWA - Canada's federal public servants will need to show up at the picket line for four hours each day if they go on strike - even if their union has been trying to negotiate permanent work-from-ho...
Apr 18, 2023
Police say several injured in western German city gym attack
BERLIN (AP) - German police say several people have been injured in an attack at a gym in the western city of Duisburg. Tuesday evening's attack occurred in the old city of Duisburg and police asked r...
Apr 18, 2023
Sheriff: Arrest warrant moot for kidnapping of Emmett Till
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that there's no point in serving an arrest warrant on a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teen...
Apr 18, 2023
VIDEO: Lightning storm flashes and dazzles across Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A dazzling light show from a passing lightning storm brought bright flashes, bone-rattling thunder and widespread hail to the mid-Island.It moved through the city around 10:30 p.m. on Monday...
Apr 18, 2023
'Done and dusted': Liberal's controversial online streaming bill back before Senate
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's controversial online-streaming bill is back in the upper chamber today, where a senator who opposed it expects it to pass. After more than a year of debate and revisi...
Apr 18, 2023