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Ex-Mexico treasury chief rejects 2nd set of accusations
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's former treasury and foreign relations secretary, Luis Videgaray, angrily denied accusations Tuesday by a lawyer for another former Cabinet secretary who claimed he used embezzle...
Nov 24, 2020
Public health and personal freedoms: Kenney walks tight rope with new COVID-19 restrictions
As new restrictions focused around public health come into force in Alberta, Premier Jason Kenney was blunt in saying he never wanted the COVID-19 situation in the province to get to this point, but n...
Nov 24, 2020
Despite reduction, Canada calls U.S. softwood lumber duties 'unfair,' 'unjustified'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal government says American duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports continue to be "unfair" and "unjustified," even if they have been reduced. An administrative re...
Nov 24, 2020
Two new COVID-19 cases added in City of Grande Prairie, Alberta adds 1,115 new cases
For the second straight day, the City of Grande Prairie added two new cases of COVID-19 and also saw six more recoveries for Monday, November 24. That brings the number of active cases in the Swan Cit...
Nov 24, 2020
Help from B.C. man allows American family to reunite in Alaska
A woman from Georgia says her family's reunion was saved by a man from British Columbia who drove her family to the Alaskan border after they got stranded and appealed for help.Lynn Marchessault began...
Nov 24, 2020
Alberta bans indoor social gatherings, expands holiday school break
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province bending precariously under the weight of record COVID-19 cases, imposed new sweeping public health restrictions Tuesday that include a ban on gath...
Nov 24, 2020
State of public health emergency declared in Alberta as new COVID-19 restrictions come in
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced new public health restrictions for the province as a state of public health emergency has once again been declared as cases of COVID-19 continue a steep rise...
Nov 24, 2020
No further charges related to investigation in Bountiful, B.C.: special prosecutor
VICTORIA - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has declined to approve any further charges against people associated with the community of Bountiful where a fundamentalist Christian sect practise...
Nov 24, 2020
New Canada Soccer president Bontis says men's and women's national teams a priority
A tenured professor at McMaster University, Nick Bontis's school bio says he's recognized internationally as a "leading strategy and management guru." Those skills -- combined with some guidance from ...
Nov 24, 2020
Top public servant says few redactions of cabinet confidences made to WE documents
OTTAWA, Ohio - The top federal public servant says only one per cent of the 5,000-plus pages of documents the government has released on the WE Charity affair were blacked out to protect cabinet confi...
Nov 24, 2020