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Jefferson Quran returns to US as Dubai Expo 2020 winds down
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A rare, two-volume Quran owned by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson found itself carefully packed away Wednesday for a return flight to America after being on display ...
Feb 09, 2022
Statistics Canada to detail first findings from last year's pandemic census
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is scheduled this morning to release the first set of findings from last year's census taken against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today's release will detail the p...
Feb 09, 2022
O'Dine picks up Canada's 7th medal at Beijing Olympics with snowboard cross bronze
BEIJING - A concussion robbed Meryeta O'Dine of her first chance at Olympic glory. O'Dine had made Canada's snowboard team for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics after a successful 2017-18 campaign on the ...
Feb 09, 2022
More protest arrests in Ottawa, first COVID census findings : In The News for Feb. 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 Feb. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 09, 2022
Canadians less trusting of governments, politicians as pandemic drags on: poll
OTTAWA - There is a noticeable decline in how trusting Canadians are of their leaders and institutions as the pandemic drags on, and it's particularly striking among those who remain anxious or stress...
Feb 09, 2022
Police concerned for safety of kids living in trucks involved in Ottawa protest
Ottawa police say 23 people have been arrested in the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest in the city's downtown, and there are 85 ongoing criminal investigations related to the nearly two-week-long ...
Feb 09, 2022
'The big picture': Alberta border protesters planning to stay for the long haul
COUTTS, Alta. - Alberta's vaccine passport is gone but protesters are promising to hunker down for the long term on the highway leading to the province's main U.S. border crossing. Any thought that th...
Feb 09, 2022
Canada's Meryeta O'Dine takes the bronze medal in women's snowboard cross
BEIJING - Canada's Meryeta O'Dine raced to a bronze medal in the women's snowboard cross Wednesday at the Beijing Olympics. The 24-year-old from Prince George, B.C., held off Australia's Belle Brockho...
Feb 09, 2022
Canada watching closely as Olympic medals in team figure skating delayed by legal issue
BEIJING - An ongoing legal issue that could affect the medallists in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics, an event in which Canada finished fourth, has caused the award ceremon...
Feb 09, 2022
Stars fall to Terriers 3-2 in OT heartbreaker
Yorkton Terriers forward, Kishaun Gervais scored 2:40 into the extra frame, to lead his team to a 3-2 overtime win over the Battlefords North Stars Tuesday night in North Battleford. Steven Kesslering...
Feb 09, 2022