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B.C. watches flood risk as rains ease, but heat has potential to melt snowpack
VANCOUVER - Rainy conditions that raised flood risks in much of British Columbia are being replaced by sunshine as a brief heat wave offers a respite until early next week. The end of the downpours me...
Jun 24, 2022

Biden to speak about abortion ruling, outline his plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will speak from the White House about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The remarks...
Jun 24, 2022

Protesters descend on U.S. Supreme Court to decry decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON - Protesters are massing outside the barricaded U.S. Supreme Court to decry the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that cleared the way for legal abortions in the Un...
Jun 24, 2022

Live updates | Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Barack Obama has condemned the U.S. Supreme Court ending constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years. Obama said on Twitter that t...
Jun 24, 2022

Public inquiry in Nova Scotia seeking explanation from Ottawa about withheld notes
HALIFAX - The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting wants to know why the federal Justice Department withheld for several months four pages of notes from a senior Mountie. In the handwri...
Jun 24, 2022

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday'...
Jun 24, 2022

Hillier calls on Ottawa to provide aid to Ukraine, laments waning interest in war
OTTAWA - Retired general Rick Hillier is lamenting what he sees as waning Canadian interest in the war in Ukraine as public and political attention turns increasingly toward the rising rate of inflati...
Jun 24, 2022

Andreescu in Bad Homburg final after Halep withdraws
BAD HOMBURG, Germany - Canada's Bianca Andreescu reached her first final in more than a year after Simona Halep withdrew ahead of their semifinal match at the Bad Homburg Open on Friday with a neck in...
Jun 24, 2022

Avalanche on the cusp of dethroning Lightning and winning third Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup will be in the building tonight when the Colorado Avalanche welcome the Tampa Bay Lightning to Denver's Ball Arena for Game 5 of the NHL final. The Avalanche lead the best-of-seven ser...
Jun 24, 2022

Former CFL player Joshua Boden to be sentenced for second-degree murder
VANCOUVER - A former Canadian Football League wide receiver convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is expected to be sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court today. Joshua Boden was found guilty last fall of s...
Jun 24, 2022