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Quebec to fund new native friendship centre in city where Joyce Echaquan died
JOLIETTE, Que. - The Quebec government is investing $3.1 million for a new Native Friendship Centre in a city that was recently shaken by the death of an Indigenous woman in a local hospital. Indigeno...
Nov 10, 2020
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu plans to return for Australian swing
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu is planning to make her long-awaited return to the WTA Tour this January in Australia. The 20-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., hasn't played a competitive m...
Nov 10, 2020
TYH: When to stay home this COVID winter
Staying home this fall and winter when sick is what health officials are recommending...but what exactly does that mean?"So anyone that's feeling ill really needs to say home and think about if they n...
Nov 10, 2020
James Duthie shares some of hockey's greatest untold stories in 'Beauties'
James Duthie faced a big problem. After conducting dozens of interviews for a compilation of hockey stories - most of them previously known to only a select few - the award-winning broadcaster was stu...
Nov 10, 2020
Medicago reports promising early Phase 1 test results of possible COVID-19 vaccine
QUEBEC - Medicago says it has received promising early test results for its plant-derived vaccine for COVID-19. The Quebec City-based company says interim results of a Phase 1 clinical trial found tha...
Nov 10, 2020
Three go on trial for deadly 2017 Barcelona terror attacks
MADRID - Three people went on trial Tuesday in Spain for their alleged roles in terror attacks around Barcelona that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in 2017. The three - Driss Oukabir, Mohamed...
Nov 10, 2020
Vatican faults many for McCarrick's rise but spares pope
ROME - A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determine...
Nov 10, 2020
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data
LONDON - European Union regulators have filed antitrust charges against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform. The EU's exec...
Nov 10, 2020
COVID may have reversed decline in Canadian trust in scientists, survey says
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have boosted failing public trust in science and scientists, a new survey has found. "I think it's fantastic that we see the decline in skepticism about science ...
Nov 10, 2020
Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure dies at 72
BAMAKO, Mali - Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure has died at the age of 72. Senegalese President Macky Sall on Tuesday confirmed the death of the former leader on Twitter. Mali's government...
Nov 10, 2020