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Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan chides Joly for 'unacceptable' comments to Armenians
OTTAWA - Azerbaijan's foreign ministry argues Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is undermining peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by referring to the area with the name used by Armenian ...
Aug 24, 2023
Trump is set to surrender at a Georgia jail on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss
ATLANTA (AP) - Donald Trump was set to turn himself in Thursday to authorities in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in that state, a county jail booking expect...
Aug 24, 2023
Quebec company buys private island with chalet to boost employee happiness
LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal-area company has come up with a novel - if extreme - way to boost employee happiness: buying them a private island. The 30 workers at data services company Mon Technicien are ...
Aug 24, 2023
LGBTQ advocates in Saskatchewan gear up for human rights fight over pronoun rules
Fran Forsberg fought years ago for a gender marker to be removed from her child's birth certificate. Now up against the Saskatchewan Party government's pronoun and naming changes in schools, she says ...
Aug 24, 2023
Sylvan Lake care centre closed until 3 p.m. today
Another temporary closure is taking place at the Sylvan Lake Advanced Ambulatory Care Service (SLAACS).AHS announced at 10:35 a.m. on Thursday that centre is closed right now until 3 p.m. today, due t...
Aug 24, 2023
Cancer patients evacuated from Northwest Territories supported in Alberta
EDMONTON, AB - Cancer patients who have evacuated to Alberta from the Northwest Territories due to wildfires are receiving help from Alberta Health Services (AHS).The agency said patients expected for...
Aug 24, 2023
Putin breaks silence on plane crash that presumably killed Wagner leaders
Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken his silence on the plane crash that killed top leaders of the Wagner mercenary group. Putin expressed condolences for those who were aboard the jet, includi...
Aug 24, 2023
Ukraine seeks Canada's help in selling peace plan to skeptical states, more demining
OTTAWA - Ukraine is calling on Canada to help it sell a peace plan with Russia to developing countries who have taken a neutral stance on Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro K...
Aug 24, 2023
Race walker Dunfee picks up another 4th-place finish at World Athletics Championships
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Evan Dunfee finished just shy of a podium finish for the second time at the World Athletics Championships. The race walker from Richmond, B.C., placed fourth in the men's 35-kilome...
Aug 24, 2023
Canadian Table Tennis Championships in Hay River cancelled due to N.W.T. wildfires
HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - The Canadian Table Tennis Championships scheduled for Sept. 22-24 in Hay River, N.W.T., have been cancelled due to the ongoing wildfire situation in the territory, Table Tennis Nor...
Aug 24, 2023