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Conservatives focus on homebuilding, Liberals on health care as advance voting ends
The final week of the federal election campaign kicked off Monday with the major party leaders scattered across the country.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said at an event in Scarborough, Ont., ...
Apr 21, 2025
'The runners are coming': Boston Marathon helps celebrate 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War
BOSTON (AP) - Paul Revere rode down Boylston Street to the Boston Marathon finish line - or almost there, as it turned out - proclaiming "the runners are coming" on Monday morning as the world's oldes...
Apr 21, 2025
'The runners are coming': Boston Marathon helps celebrate 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War
BOSTON (AP) - Paul Revere rode down Boylston Street to the Boston Marathon finish line - or almost there, as it turned out - proclaiming "the runners are coming" on Monday morning as the world's oldes...
Apr 21, 2025
'Humility, compassion and care for others': How Canadians are remembering Pope Francis
Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis's death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here's what some notable Canadians have to say. ...
Apr 21, 2025
Some emergency departments installing AI weapons detection amid rising violence
TORONTO - London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple ...
Apr 21, 2025
Canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, postponed after the death of Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sun...
Apr 21, 2025
Pope Francis reached out to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, but also drew unusual opposition
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: Background Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldes...
Apr 21, 2025
Canada's prep for 2026 Olympic women's hockey tournament radically revised
ESK BUDJOVICE - How Canada prepares to win another Olympic gold medal in women's hockey is going to be dramatically different. The six-team Professional Women's Hockey League is now able to provide a ...
Apr 21, 2025
'Who am I to judge?' Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he ...
Apr 21, 2025
Francis changed church policy on the death penalty and nuclear weapons but upheld it on abortion
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with Muslims and ...
Apr 21, 2025