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Year in review: A look at news events in March 2022

A look at news events in March 2022: 1 - Russian forces escalated their attacks on populated urban areas of Ukraine. In strategic Kharkiv, explosions tore through the region's Soviet-era administrativ...

Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in January 2022

A look at news events in January 2022: 4 - An Ontario court awarded $107 million to the families of six of the victims of the downing of a Ukraine International Airlines flight two years ago. More tha...

Dec 16, 2022

In The News for Dec. 16: Are Canadians losing money by not filing taxes?

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 Dec. 16 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Dec 16, 2022

Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear

VICTORIA - At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop. Holland said he recalle...

Dec 16, 2022

Crown tasked with rare case of no body and no identity in alleged serial killer case

WINNIPEG - More than two weeks have passed since police laid additional murder charges against an alleged serial killer, including one for the killing of an unidentified woman whose remains have not b...

Dec 16, 2022

'Money on the table': Those who don't file tax returns miss benefits delivered by CRA

OTTAWA - Canadians who don't file their tax returns are sometimes shocked to find out how much money they're owed by the government for years of missed benefits, says the head of a non-profit organiza...

Dec 16, 2022

As clock ticks for Montreal nature talks, UN official warns of 'trust deficit'

OTTAWA - The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations says the ongoing tension around public financing to save nature stem from a "trust deficit" because wealthier countries have failed to fulfi...

Dec 16, 2022

Trudeau's call-out yields questions on everything from mermaid sex to dog pants

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that's what one person is asking him to consider. In a tweet...

Dec 15, 2022

No guarantees, but expert says search of landfill for women's remains may succeed

WINNIPEG - In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton's pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women. Twenty years later, the lead forensic ant...

Dec 15, 2022

Respiratory illnesses surge beyond pre-pandemic numbers in Nunavut

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut health officials say there has been a surge of respiratory illnesses across the territory this year. Dr. Sean Watchel, the territory's chief public health officer, says case...

Dec 15, 2022