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Lewis confident Poilievre will include all caucus voices, as he picks critics
OTTAWA - Ontario Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis says she is confident Pierre Poilievre will ensure all of the party's caucus voices are heard, amid calls for him to name her to a critic role. Lewis ran ...
Oct 04, 2022

Toronto Arrows sign Canadian international fly half Shane O'Leary
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows bolstered their backs Tuesday by signing Canadian international fly half Shane O'Leary for the 2023 Major League Rugby season. The 29-year-old O'Leary spent the last two y...
Oct 04, 2022

B.C. attorney general says increasing arrests to fight violent crime is 'futile'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general says the government has no plans to arrest its way out of the province's crime issues because it won't work. Murray Rankin says fighting crime by arresti...
Oct 04, 2022

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florid...
Oct 04, 2022

MPs call for tight federal restriction on use of facial recognition technology
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by federal police and Canadian businesses unless there is court authorization or input fro...
Oct 04, 2022

North Stars travel to La Ronge on hunt for eighth straight
The surging Battlefords North Stars return to action Tuesday night in La Ronge, in search of their eighth straight win to open the season. At 7-0 to start the year, the Stars are coming off a thrillin...
Oct 04, 2022

B.C. breaking its own law on climate-change reporting, Sierra Club tells court
VANCOUVER - An environmental group has gone to court against the British Columbia government for allegedly failing to report if its climate plans will achieve key greenhouse gas emissions targets, as ...
Oct 04, 2022

Ohio walleye scandal deals big blow to tournament fishing
They fish tournaments for a living so Canadians Jeff Gustafson and Chris Johnston aren't surprised by the public backlash created by the disqualification of two anglers from an Ohio walleye event afte...
Oct 04, 2022

Flight 752 families want Ottawa to get tougher on Iran
OTTAWA - The families of people killed when Iran's military shot down Flight 752 almost three years ago say Canada needs to take a harder line against the regime. Hundreds of Iranian-Canadians gathere...
Oct 04, 2022

Five things to watch for with a new CAQ government led by François Legault
MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Qubec, led by Franois Legault, won a second consecutive majority mandate in Monday's election. Here are five things to watch out for as the CAQ leader prepares to name ...
Oct 04, 2022