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Fewer shoppers look for deals as COVID cases overshadow Boxing Day
TORONTO - Boxing Day shoppers seeking bargains found muted sales along with "we're hiring" signs and only small groups of people allowed inside stores to maintain capacity limits due to the pandemic. ...
Dec 26, 2021
New gathering limits come into effect in Quebec as COVID-19 cases soar across Canada
New public health restrictions come into effect in Quebec Sunday as COVID-19 case counts soar across the country. The province is capping private gatherings at six people or two family bubbles, after ...
Dec 26, 2021
Flood disaster takes bite out of B.C. economy, sends infrastructure wake-up call
VICTORIA - Economic growth in British Columbia will face erosion from recent floods and slides that crippled transportation links, but the resilience of government and industry to keep supply chains o...
Dec 26, 2021
Flood disaster takes bite out of B.C. economy, sends infrastructure wake-up call
VICTORIA - Economic growth in British Columbia will face erosion from recent floods and slides that crippled transportation links, but the resilience of government and industry to keep supply chains o...
Dec 26, 2021
Why Canada gets less for more when it comes to building transit
OTTAWA - In early September, Conservative candidate Jennifer McAndrew stood outside a suburban Ottawa transit hub in the battleground riding of Kanata-Carleton to make a major campaign promise. "A Con...
Dec 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President C...
Dec 25, 2021
Dreams of white Christmas come true in Vancouver, while cold grips Prairies
VANCOUVER - Known for rain and mild winters, British Columbia's west coast received an unexpected white Christmas as much of Western Canada shivered through extreme cold warnings and some parts of Ont...
Dec 25, 2021
Dreams of white Christmas come true in Vancouver, while cold grips Prairies
VANCOUVER - Known for rain and mild winters, British Columbia's west coast received an unexpected white Christmas as much of Western Canada shivered through extreme cold warnings and some parts of Ont...
Dec 25, 2021
Top Stories of 2021: Nanaimo-Ladysmith flips to NDP after fall federal election
NANAIMO - Another year and another election for most local residents who travelled to the ballot box for the sixth time since fall 2018.It would also signal a return for the riding to the federal NDP,...
Dec 25, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell turns 60 behind bars as verdict looms
NEW YORK (AP) - Ghislaine Maxwell reached her 60th birthday behind bars Saturday as she awaited the outcome of her sex trafficking trial. The British socialite is scheduled to return to a Manhattan co...
Dec 25, 2021