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Health screening task force to re-launch next spring after report calls for reform
OTTAWA - A panel of experts is calling on the Public Health Agency of Canada to modernize and reform the task force responsible for preventive health guidelines for things like cancer screening. The T...
Jun 13, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam leaving position on June 20
TORONTO - Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, is leaving when her term ends next Friday June 20. More coming. Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press
Jun 13, 2025

Lance Stroll fights through wrist injury to race at home Grand Prix in Montreal
MONTREAL - Lance Stroll is gaining a reputation for fighting through pain. The lone Canadian driver in Formula One will race for Aston Martin at this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, two weeks after mis...
Jun 13, 2025

4 detainees have escaped from an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, DHS says
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Authorities are looking for four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, according to the Department of Homeland Security. More "law enf...
Jun 13, 2025

Squamish, B.C., reports progress in fire fight, as northeast hopes for rain
There's optimism from firefighters and local authorities as crews battle blazes in opposite corners of British Columbia heading into the weekend. The District of Squamish is reporting minimal overnigh...
Jun 13, 2025

Military commander says 200 Marines moved into Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel
LOS ANGELES (AP) - About 200 Marines have moved into Los Angeles and will protect federal property, personnel, the commander in charge says. Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, commander of Task Force 51 who is ...
Jun 13, 2025

Evidence closed at Quebec truck attack trial, jury to hear final arguments next week
RIMOUSKI - The defence has finished presenting evidence in the murder trial of a Quebec man accused of using his truck to kill three pedestrians and injure nine others. Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon ha...
Jun 13, 2025

Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear and missile sites, prompting Iranian drone-strike retaliation
Israel attacked Iran early Friday in strikes that took out top military officers and hit nuclear and missile sites, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversar...
Jun 13, 2025
Beck calls removal of counter-tariff measures ‘cowardly’ and ‘tone deaf’
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck questioned the Government of Saskatchewan's recent decision to remove all of its measures aiming to counter U.S. tariffs."I don't think that that is what people in t...
Jun 13, 2025

Men who stole $6 million golden toilet from English mansion sentenced to prison terms
LONDON (AP) - Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion were sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison. The 18-carat fully functioning toilet was on display as a p...
Jun 13, 2025