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New Brunswick First Nations filing lawsuit to seek Aboriginal title
FREDERICTON - Six First Nations in New Brunswick announced today they will be filing a lawsuit seeking title to their traditional lands in New Brunswick, which include much of the western half of the ...
Oct 05, 2020
Toronto Maple Leafs bring back veteran centre Jason Spezza on another one-day deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed centre Jason Spezza to a one-year, US$700,000 contract extension. It marks the second straight one-year deal at the NHL minimum with the Leafs for the 37-...
Oct 05, 2020
Five-year-old Canadian orphan in Syrian camp set free, will come to Canada
OTTAWA - A five-year-old Canadian girl stuck inside Syria after her family was killed in an airstrike is being allowed to leave the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne s...
Oct 05, 2020
U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery
STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...
Oct 05, 2020
U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery
STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...
Oct 05, 2020
New pandemic aid and health-care workers at risk: In The News for Oct. 5
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 Oct. 5. What we are watching in Canada ... The...
Oct 05, 2020
Microsoft plans $1 billion data centre venture in Greece
ATHENS, Greece - Microsoft has announced plans to build three data centres in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by th...
Oct 05, 2020
14 days of solitude: The lonely success of the 'Atlantic bubble'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Laurie Leek has spent four of the past eight weeks alone in her home in St. John's. She was alone for her birthday. She was alone in the weeks immediately following her mother...
Oct 05, 2020
EU top official self-isolating after contact with virus case
BRUSSELS - European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says she has placed herself in isolation after being in contact with a person infected with the coronavirus. In a message posted on Twitte...
Oct 05, 2020
New institute to shine spotlight on Canada's little known history of slavery
MONTREAL - Charmaine Nelson wagers that if you asked people in cities across Canada what they know about the history of slavery in this country, most would be surprised to hear that the practice even ...
Oct 05, 2020