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Biden gave Trudeau same aviator sunglasses as official summit gift, as Putin
OTTAWA - President Joe Biden gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the same pair of aviator sunglasses last year he presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin a few months earlier at a summit in Genev...
Jan 27, 2022
Canada's men's hockey team trying to come together and bond of and off ice
Canada's men's Olympic hockey team has made coming together as a unit in a short time top priority ahead of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. With two weeks before Canada opens its Olympic tournament...
Jan 27, 2022
Coast Guard finds 4 more migrant bodies off Florida coast
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard said Thursday that it had found four additional bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida but that it would call off its active searc...
Jan 27, 2022
ECHL player Panetta suspended for remainder of season after making 'racial gesture'
The ECHL has suspended former Jacksonville Icemen forward Jacob Panetta for the remainder of the season for a "racial gesture" directed toward South Carolina Stingrays defenceman Jordan Subban in a ga...
Jan 27, 2022
Canada can do more to help Ukraine besides sending weapons: experts
OTTAWA - The debate around sending weapons to Ukraine is being panned as a "red herring" by experts who say Canada can better support the country in other ways. The comments come after Prime Minister ...
Jan 27, 2022
Parliamentary security, police preparing as truckers' protest convoy nears Ottawa
OTTAWA - Security forces on Parliament Hill are preparing for up to 10,000 protesters to set up camp in downtown Ottawa this weekend to push back against lockdowns and vaccination mandates. A memo the...
Jan 27, 2022
Stormy Daniels and Avenatti meet again, as adversaries
NEW YORK (AP) - Stormy Daniels took her star turn on the witness stand Thursday at California lawyer Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury Avenatti "stole from me and lied to me." Her testimony was...
Jan 27, 2022
Tories' election review calls for more diverse candidates, greater outreach: sources
OTTAWA - A report into how the Conservatives fared in last year's election calls on the party to recruit more diverse candidates and for better outreach into different cultural communities, where the ...
Jan 27, 2022
Trudeau says he is isolating after learning of COVID exposure
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating at home after learning that he was exposed to someone who had tested positive for COVID-19.The prime minister says in a tweet that he learne...
Jan 27, 2022
Oklahoma executes man for 2001 slayings of 2 hotel workers
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklah...
Jan 27, 2022