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Patrick Brown set to make committee appearance on foreign interference
OTTAWA - Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown will appear before a Parliamentary committee on foreign interference this afternoon. The former Conservative Party leadership candidate was summoned to answer que...
Dec 05, 2024
B.C. launches review of 911 services after complaints about costs, transparency
VICTORIA - British Columbia is launching a review of the province's 911 emergency service after complaints about escalating costs and lack of transparency. Public Safety Minister Garry Begg says in a ...
Dec 05, 2024
Luis Severino and Athletics agree to $67 million, 3-year contract, AP sources say
Right-hander Luis Severino and the Athletics have agreed to a $67 million, three-year contract, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of an...
Dec 05, 2024
Overseas hikers rescued in B.C. relied on online app: rescue group
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - The search and rescue organization for Metro Vancouver's North Shore mountains says its teams recently rescued two international visitors who became stranded after relying on o...
Dec 05, 2024
Overseas hikers rescued in B.C. relied on online app: rescue group
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - The search and rescue organization for Metro Vancouver's North Shore mountains says its teams recently rescued two international visitors who became stranded after relying on o...
Dec 05, 2024
Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault tells committee: 'I am not Indigenous'
OTTAWA - Randy Boissonnault, whose shifting claims to Indigenous identity cost him his job as employment minister, told a House of Commons committee today that he is not Indigenous. Boissonnault was c...
Dec 05, 2024
Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin ruled out of game against Jets with back spasms
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff ruled out defenceman Rasmus Dahlin from playing against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night because of back spasms. Ruff did not provide a timeline...
Dec 05, 2024
NASA's first astronaut flight around the moon in decades faces more delays
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said the next mission in the Artemis p...
Dec 05, 2024
Quebec police say cutting blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save up to 14 lives a year
QUBEC - Quebec provincial police estimate that reducing the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save between 10 and 14 lives every year on the province's roadways. Those figures are contained in he...
Dec 05, 2024
Former Japan youth international Aoi Kizaki becomes fifth player on AFC Toronto squad
TORONTO - Former Japan youth international Aoi Kizaki is the latest soccer talent to join AFC Toronto of the new Northern Super League. Kizaki, 26, is the club's fifth signing, joining Canadians Cloey...
Dec 05, 2024