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People to thank for Ottawa’s success with curbing COVID-19: health officer
OTTAWA - As the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise across Canada, the infection rate in Ottawa has been going in the other direction for weeks, putting the city on the right track to flatt...
Nov 28, 2020
Europe's Christmas dilemma: risk empty chairs next year?
BRUSSELS - Please leave a chair empty at this year's family Christmas dinner as a precaution, or face the possibility of having that chair empty forever. That's the stark dilemma Belgium's prime minis...
Nov 28, 2020
Biden's win means some Guantanamo prisoners may be released
WASHINGTON - The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, something that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up with...
Nov 28, 2020
Kashmir people vote in local polls amid cold and security
SRINAGAR, India - Thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Saturday amid tight security and freezing cold temperatures in the first phase of local elections, the first since New Delhi re...
Nov 28, 2020
Mountie says he suggested meeting with CBSA on Meng arrest to avoid 'problems'
VANCOUVER - The Mountie who says he warned against arresting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou by boarding her plane when it landed in Vancouver says he made his own decision to come into the airport and ...
Nov 27, 2020
Ahtahkakoop's Sobriety Walk pays tribute to late Fred Sasakamoose
Friday's walk at Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation was meant to be a Sobriety Walk to mark National Addictions Awareness month. But it turned out to be a lot more than that. It also served as a tribute to the l...
Nov 27, 2020
Gang associates arrested, weapons seized following Lashburn car theft
Maidstone RCMP collaborated with other law enforcement groups to arrest multiple members of the Westside Outlaws street gang last week, after tracking a stolen car in western Saskatchewan.Around 3 p.m...
Nov 27, 2020
Jagmeet Singh stoked for 'epic crossover' in video gaming sesh with AOC
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his public video gaming session with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tonight is about reaching young people where they hang. Singh, who challenged the firebrand member ...
Nov 27, 2020
Turtleford RCMP looking into truck theft by Brightsand
RCMP in northwest Saskatchewan are asking for public assistance as they investigate the theft of a truck in Brightsand, Sask., half an hour north of Turtleford.On Nov. 27, Turtleford RCMP received a t...
Nov 27, 2020
PMOops: Trudeau's office releases account of him scolding O'Toole before he does it
OTTAWA - A spokesman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his office accidentally sent out an account of a phone call with Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole that hadn't happened yet. The premature ac...
Nov 27, 2020