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Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild symptoms'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation's efforts to resume nor...
Jul 21, 2022
187 minutes: Jan. 6 committee focuses on Trump himself in prime-time hearing finale
WASHINGTON - Tonight's prime-time finale by the Jan. 6 committee will be focused on Donald Trump himself and what he was doing - or not doing - while violence raged on Capitol Hill. The committee's ei...
Jul 21, 2022
Canada teams learn path at Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa
Canada's men will play Zimbabwe while the Canadian women face China in their opening matches at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa. The schedule was released Thursday, marking the 50-day lead-...
Jul 21, 2022
Conservative Party of Canada decides to hold third leadership debate in August
OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada has decided to hold a third debate in the contest to become its next leader. Members of the leadership election organizing committee met Wednesday and decided...
Jul 21, 2022
Canadian gymnasts ask sport minister to suspend government funding to their sport
More than 500 Canadian gymnasts are calling on Canada's Sport Minister to freeze funding to their national sport organization. In a public letter Thursday to Minister Pascale St-Onge - and after four ...
Jul 21, 2022
Heat warnings across Canada, BoC inflation lessons : In The News for July 21
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 July 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jul 21, 2022
Expanded Quebec provincial police cold case squad has yet to solve a murder
MONTREAL - More than 50 years later, Isabel Marcotte still feels the pain of her sister's murder every day. On Sept. 12, 1969, 14-year-old Teresa Martin got off the bus near her home in Montreal's nor...
Jul 21, 2022
'A personal journey': People travelling great distances to see Pope Francis
Susan Enge will be thinking of her mother's time in a residential school during the long journey south from the Northwest Territories to see Pope Francis in Alberta. Her thoughts will linger on that l...
Jul 21, 2022
Temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C in parts of the country
Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for a number of provinces, with temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C over the coming days. The heat advisories cover large swaths of New Brunswick...
Jul 21, 2022
Tokyo Olympic aftermath still being untangled a year later
TOKYO (AP) - The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games were ...
Jul 20, 2022