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Ottawa announces $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next decade
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion over the next ten years to plant two billion trees across the country. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan made the fu...
Dec 14, 2020
Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead
When Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had...
Dec 14, 2020
Alberta chief medical officer of health believes world junior hockey can be safe
EDMONTON - Alberta's top doctor is defending the province's decision to allow the world junior hockey championship to be played in Edmonton later this month while restrictions and cases mount during t...
Dec 14, 2020
Anti-racism task force calls for end to racial profiling in all Quebec police forces
MONTREAL - An anti-racism task force created by the Quebec premier last June is recommending that police across the province stop randomly stopping people. Junior health minister Lionel Carmant told r...
Dec 14, 2020
Austin FC gets glimpse of players made available in MLS expansion draft
Attackers Pablo Piatti, Maxi Urruti and Fredy Montero were left unprotected by their Canadian clubs ahead of Tuesday's MLS expansion draft to help stock Austin FC. The league's 27th franchise and thir...
Dec 14, 2020
Washington pulls out of Pac-12 title game, replaced by Ducks
SEATTLE - Washington has pulled out of the Pac-12 football championship game due to COVID-19 issues in the Huskies program, and Oregon will now play No. 13 USC for the conference title on Friday inste...
Dec 14, 2020
1 dead, dozens wounded in tribal clashes in southern Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisian authorities ordered a curfew in regions in southern Tunisia after at least a man was killed and dozens of people wounded, two seriously, in tribal clashes that broke out over...
Dec 14, 2020
Court hears senior RCMP officer emailed FBI after Huawei CFO arrested in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A security analyst who monitors emails to and from the RCMP says a senior Mountie emailed the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation the day after a Huawei executive was arrested at Vancouve...
Dec 14, 2020
Senator likely to propose major amendments to assisted dying bill
OTTAWA - It's out of the political frying pan and into the fire today for the Trudeau government's bill to expand access to medically assisted dying. Opening debate on Bill C-7 begins tonight in the S...
Dec 14, 2020
AP Interview: Indians owner says name won't change in 2021
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Indians are changing their name - they just don't know to what or when. Expressing that "it's time," owner Paul Dolan said that after months of internal discussions and meeti...
Dec 14, 2020