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Quebec Conservative Party leader hospitalized with heart problem
MONTREAL - Quebec Conservative Party leader ric Duhaime has been hospitalized with a heart problem. Duhaime says he suffered heart trouble Friday night and his spouse immediately brought him to hospit...
Dec 07, 2024

Canada's Danae Blais claims World Cup short track gold in Beijing
BEIJING - Canadian short track speedskater Danae Blais captured her first World Cup gold medal in an individual distance Saturday when she was first in the women's 1,000 metres. The 25-year-old from C...
Dec 07, 2024

Trump receives a Paris welcome full of presidential pomp from France's Macron
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full a dose of presidential pomp as the two men resumed the relationship they established during Trump's...
Dec 07, 2024

Beaten by Australia, Canadian women miss out on semifinals at Cape Town Sevens
CAPE TOWN - Australia, fresh off a fifth straight title in Dubai, downed Canada 26-10 in pool play at the Cape Town Sevens on Saturday to advance to the semifinals. The unbeaten Australian women will ...
Dec 07, 2024

Syrian opposition activists say insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that has seen them take over some of Syria's largest cities, opposition activists and a rebel...
Dec 07, 2024

Fort St. John RCMP investigating after bullet strikes home
Fort St. John RCMP are investigating after what they describe as "a stray bullet" struck a home.Mounties say they got a report just before 7:30 Friday morning about damage caused to the home on 117 Av...
Dec 07, 2024

Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees
OTTAWA - The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada's beekeeping community. A federal judge...
Dec 07, 2024

Not just for your parents: Facebook's buy-and-sell platform drawing back millennials
HALIFAX - A historic 400-kilogram anchor that was dragged up from the ocean floor off Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland sits propped up against a tree in front of Tyler Stapleton's house. The two-metre-...
Dec 07, 2024

LGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them
NAIROBI - In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas with peanut sauce. Like m...
Dec 07, 2024

An explosion has caused several injuries and damaged apartments in a Dutch city
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - An explosion and fire rocked a neighborhood in the Dutch city of The Hague early Saturday, destroying several apartments and injuring multiple people, according to author...
Dec 07, 2024