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Soccer star Rashford honored for fighting child poverty
LONDON (AP) - Soccer star Marcus Rashford has received an honorary award from Prince William for his successful campaign to get the British government to provide free meals to disadvantaged children d...
Nov 09, 2021

Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa's gloom
LONDON (AP) - South African author Damon Galgut has mixed feelings. This has been a great week for him, a good month for African writers - and a terrible year, he says, for his country, blighted by pa...
Nov 09, 2021

Quebec's Nunavik region struggling with COVID, has highest infection rate in province
MONTREAL - The health board governing Quebec's Nunavik region says the COVID-19 situation in the northern territory is worse than it's ever been. Health officials reported 30 new cases Monday across t...
Nov 09, 2021

City implements new COVID-19 restrictions
In a tight vote, the majority of City of North Battleford council approved increased COVID-19 restrictions for members of the public entering a number of city-owned facilities that will go into effect...
Nov 09, 2021

'We miss our friends': N.Y. town eager for Canadians to return as land border reopens
MONTREAL - Residents of a New York border town say they're eager to welcome Canadians now that the United States has eased land border restrictions, but they worry that costly COVID-19 testing rules w...
Nov 09, 2021

The Money: Today's veterans fighting Ottawa for equality with previous generations
OTTAWA - When his son was nearly killed by an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan in 2010, Jim Scott had no idea he was about to embark on a multi-year legal battle with the federal government on behal...
Nov 09, 2021

Most Canadians support the federal government's climate policy announcements: poll
OTTAWA - After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made multiple policy announcements across the pond at the COP26 climate summit in Scotland, a new poll hints at how Canadians feel about those developments...
Nov 09, 2021

Canada's pollution cap policy, border towns welcome tourists : In The News for Nov. 9
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 Nov. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Nov 09, 2021

Rep. Gosar under fire for anime attacking Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar was facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword. In a tweet Monday ...
Nov 09, 2021

Boswell's late field goal lifts Steelers past Bears 29-27
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Chris Boswell hit a 40-yard field goal with 26 seconds to go as the Pittsburgh Steelers held off the sloppy, mistake-prone Chicago Bears 29-27 on Monday night. Boswell's third field ...
Nov 08, 2021