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Trudeau to attend 'Three Amigos' summit as U.S. expands challenge under trade deal
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to travel to Mexico City for a North American Leaders' Summit taking place Jan. 10. The annual "Three Amigos" meeting will see Trudeau sitting down w...
Dec 20, 2022
Quebec anticorruption squad kept busy this year investigating fake vaccine passports
QUEBEC - A new report from Quebec's anticorruption unit says its officers were kept busy this year chasing down hundreds of reports related to the production and use of fake COVID-19 vaccine passports...
Dec 20, 2022
Jeremy Wotherspoon Open Long Track Speed Skating and Canadian Youth Long Track Championship Qualifier
Jeremy Wotherspoon Open Long Track meet and Canadian Youth Long Track Championship Qualifier.Jan. 14-15, 2023. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Setters Place, Great Chief Park. Red Deer Lions Speed Skating Cl...
Dec 20, 2022
Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday, the latest e...
Dec 20, 2022
CP NewsAlert: Defence Department gets OK to spend $7 billion on 16 F-35 fighter jets
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence has quietly received approval to buy 16 F-35 fighter jets and related gear for a price tag of $7 billion, sources tell The Canadian Press. More coming. The ...
Dec 20, 2022
Canada, China set aside differences to help COP15 nature talks succeed: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the COP15 biodiversity framework reached Monday in Montreal was possible because Canada and China were able to set aside their diplomatic differenc...
Dec 20, 2022
Trio charged in Penhold area firearms and stolen property bust sentenced
Sentencing has now taken place for all three people charged in a series of incidents in Penhold last year that saw RCMP seize nearly two dozen guns, drugs and other items.Amber Lee Parfitt, 38, of Old...
Dec 20, 2022
Ottawa police chief vows there won't be a repeat of last winter's 'Freedom Convoy'
Ottawa's chief of police says the force is making preparations to handle a potential return of the "Freedom Convoy" next February. Eric Stubbs sent a letter to the mayor and the chair of the Ottawa Po...
Dec 20, 2022
Touchdown Atlantic to return in 2023 as Argonauts and Roughriders meet in Halifax
HALIFAX - Touchdown Atlantic is returning on July 29 with a marquee Canadian Football League matchup. The defending Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts will take on the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Hal...
Dec 20, 2022
Quebec premier 'more optimistic' on health-funding deal after meeting with Trudeau
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he is "more optimistic" about reaching a health-care funding deal with Ottawa after his meeting today with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Legault spoke t...
Dec 20, 2022