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SpaceX ready to launch NASA astronauts, back on home turf
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A SpaceX rocket is ready to boost two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, the first launch of Americans from the U.S. in nearly a decade. Liftoff is set for 4:33 p.m. EDT from...
May 27, 2020

Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of black man
MINNEAPOLIS - To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was ho...
May 27, 2020

COVID-19 rent aid for businesses, landlords to cost $520 million, PBO says
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog estimates a federal program aimed at giving small businesses a break on their rent could cost the public purse $520 million this fiscal year. Budget officer Yve...
May 27, 2020

Search continues for missing N.L. fisherman Wednesday after three bodies found
ST. LAWRENCE, N.L. - The search for a fisherman missing since Monday evening is continuing off the south coast of Newfoundland today after the bodies of three others from the lost vessel were rec...
May 27, 2020

Twenty-nine of Canada's 48 national parks to reopen to day-use visitors June 1
More than half of Canada's national parks - including Banff in Alberta, Pacific Rim in British Columbia and Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia - are to reopen June 1. M...
May 27, 2020

Ponoka citizens encouraged to hold 'virtual garage sales'
PONOKA- The Town is encouraging those who are planning to hold a garage sale to consider hosting a 'virtual garage sale' instead, using free online platforms such as Kijiji, Facebook Marketplace and s...
May 27, 2020

Parcel delays to continue as Canada Post delivers at record levels
OTTAWA- Canada Post customers should anticipate parcel delays for the foreseeable future, even as it continues delivers at record levels.As people continue to ramp up and diversify their online shoppi...
May 27, 2020

Long-term care home report and JK Rowling's new story; In The News for May 27
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 27 ... --- C...
May 27, 2020

Some employees miss working in air-conditioned spaces as central Canada sizzles
Natasha Burtenshaw-deVries lives in one of several apartments in a converted house in Brantford, Ont., that doesn't have central air conditioning. Her mom purchased her "a bit of a pity gift" of a win...
May 27, 2020

How much will be enough when it comes to Canada's COVID-19 supply?
OTTAWA - A high-profile announcement by the Liberals this week that automotive giant General Motors would make 10 million medical masks omitted a detail that speaks to the long road ahead in Canada's ...
May 27, 2020