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Saskatchewan RCMP charge leader of Canadian Nationalist Party with hate speech
REGINA - RCMP in Saskatchewan have charged the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party with wilfully promoting hate against an identifiable group. Police say officers began investigating Travis Patro...
Feb 17, 2021
Statistics Canada says annual inflation rate climbs to 1.0% in January
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the consumer price index rose 1.0 per cent compared with a year ago as the annual pace of inflation picked up.The reading compared with a year-over-year increase of 0.7...
Feb 17, 2021
Benchmark lumber prices jump to a record US$1,000 despite slowdown in sales volumes
CALGARY - Homebuyers and renovators hoping for a mid-winter price slump are instead being greeted with new all-time record high prices for lumber and oriented strandboard (OSB) building panels.CIBC an...
Feb 17, 2021
Chris Paul memoir 'Sixty-One' coming out in September
NEW YORK - NBA All-Star Chris Paul has an off-court project in the works: His first book. Paul's "Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court" will come out in September, St. Martin's Pres...
Feb 17, 2021
Tournament of Hearts first test of Curling Canada's Calgary bubble
CALGARY - Kerri Einarson will miss having her twin daughters ask her when can they go to the hotel pool. The skip of the reigning Canadian women's curling champions says those moments are mental break...
Feb 17, 2021
Chris Paul memoir 'Sixty-One' coming out in September
NEW YORK - NBA All-Star Chris Paul has an off-court project in the works: His first book. Paul's "Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court" will come out in September, St. Martin's Pres...
Feb 17, 2021
Ford to go all electric in Europe by 2030
FRANKFURT - Ford is vowing to convert its entire passenger vehicle lineup in Europe to electric power by 2030 in just the latest sign of the seismic technological changes sweeping the auto industry. F...
Feb 17, 2021
Review: Bill Gates offers a hopeful take on climate change
"How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need," by Bill Gates (Knopf) Watching Bill Gates in the news over the years, his demeanour usually is that of an earnest,...
Feb 17, 2021
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada on Feb. 17, 2021
The latest developments on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (all times eastern): 11:15 a.m. New COVID-19 modelling in Quebec suggests a more contagious mutation of the novel coronavirus could be the do...
Feb 17, 2021
Kentucky storm holds up Canadian vaccine delivery as shipper hurries to catch up
OTTAWA - The "big lift" for Canada's COVID-19 vaccination efforts this week has been sideswiped by a big snowdrift. UPS temporarily closed its operations in Louisville, Ky., Monday because the city re...
Feb 17, 2021