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Human rights commission to investigate death of seven-year-old Quebec girl
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement th...
Jan 05, 2021

Trudeau says he too is frustrated by holiday travellers, pace of vaccine rollout
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shares the frustrations of Canadians with those who've chosen to travel abroad over the holiday season. Trudeau says changes are coming to a new federal ...
Jan 05, 2021

If 2020 was a watershed year for athlete activism, will the momentum continue in '21?
TORONTO - An athlete with a megaphone, fist raised in furious protest. Teammates kneeling, heads bowed, linked arm-in-arm. Political slogans - "Vote Warnock" - across the chest of warmup shirts. A pai...
Jan 05, 2021

Hope and the Future: despite challenging year local MP looking forward to 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget, but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories."I would say probably one...
Jan 05, 2021

US factories grew in December at fastest pace since mid-2018
WASHINGTON - American factories grew in December at the fastest pace in more than two years as manufacturing continued to weather the pandemic better than the battered services sector. The Institute f...
Jan 05, 2021

Quebec City long-term care employee in his 50s dies from COVID-19
MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec City say a worker at one of the first long-term care homes in the province to receive COVID-19 vaccines has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus...
Jan 05, 2021

Nearly half of Canadians visited friends, family over holidays, new poll suggests
OTTAWA - A new survey suggests nearly half of Canadians visited with family or friends over the winter holiday period. The Lger/Association for Canadian Studies poll found 48 per cent of those surveye...
Jan 05, 2021

Canada to play for gold after downing Russia 5-0 in semifinals
EDMONTON - Canada will play for gold at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton after beating Russia 5-0 in semifinal action Monday. Alex Newhook returned from injury to put Canada on the boa...
Jan 05, 2021

Canadian troops test positive for COVID-19 in Latvia, Kuwait
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says Canadian troops deployed to Latvia have tested positive for COVID-19. The Defence Department isn't saying how many Canadian Armed Forces members have b...
Jan 05, 2021

The latest on COVID-19 developments in Canada on Jan. 5, 2021
OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 11:10 a.m. Quebec is reporting 2,508 new cases of COVID-19 today and 62 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus...
Jan 05, 2021