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Regis Labeaume, longtime Quebec City mayor, won't seek re-election in November
Quebec City's longtime mayor says he's quitting politics and won't seek re-election in November. Regis Labeaume made the announcement today at a news conference in the provincial capital. Labeaume, 65...
May 05, 2021
Right-wing think-tank ordered to pay man hurt at rally $2.4M
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge has ordered a right-wing think-tank led by white nationalist Richard Spencer to pay $2.4 million to an Ohio man severely injured during a white supremacist and neo-Naz...
May 05, 2021
US approves waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic. United Stat...
May 05, 2021
Ticketing of Black man for jaywalking was racial discrimination: human rights board
HALIFAX - A human rights board of inquiry has found that a Black man was discriminated against by Halifax police when he was ticketed for jaywalking. Board chairman Benjamin Perryman released a decisi...
May 05, 2021
Amid US pullout, Taliban issue threat to Afghan journalists
KABUL - The Taliban on Wednesday issued a threat to Afghan journalists they accuse of siding with Afghanistan's intelligence agency in Kabul, a warning that came amid a U.S. troop pullout and rising f...
May 05, 2021
To filmmaker Gibney, opioid crisis is 'Crime of the Century'
NEW YORK - Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary "The Crime of the Century" opens with a body bag. It contained a man from San Diego - his remains carried away in the p...
May 05, 2021
Northwest MP successfully pushes for rail safety study
SMITHERS -Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Taylor Bachrach has successfully pushed for a study on rail safety.The House of Commons committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has agreed to hold...
May 05, 2021
'Anxious to see you:' JFK letters to Swedish lover auctioned
BOSTON - Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. "You are wonderful and I miss you," Kennedy scribbled a...
May 05, 2021
Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz
NEW YORK - Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of "Da Butt" at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she's releasing an album wi...
May 05, 2021
Yukon to lift requirement of 14-day self-isolation for arriving travellers May 25
WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says travellers who can prove they've been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 won't be required to self-isolate when they enter the territory beginning May 25. Premier...
May 05, 2021