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Film: 'Roe' plaintiff says her anti-abortion switch was act
WASHINGTON - Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as "Jane Roe," her story was at the centre of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was...
May 21, 2020
Marcel Bellefeuille returns to University of Ottawa as head football coach
OTTAWA - Marcel Bellefeuille is back as the University of Ottawa's head football coach. The school announced Bellefeuille's return Thursday. Bellefeuille served as the school's head coa...
May 21, 2020
Canada rugby calendar still up in the air because of pandemic restrictions
TORONTO - With July internationals already called off due to the global pandemic and the likely cancellation of the Americas Rugby Championship later this summer, Canada's top rugby players may n...
May 21, 2020
Car crash claims a life near Quesnel
QUESNEL - One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash near Ten Mile Lake just north of Quesnel.Quesnel RCMP Sgt. Richard Weseen says the crash occurred last Sunday night on a private property ...
May 21, 2020
B.C. Business and Community Leaders Take a Stand Against Racism: We Say NO to Hate… It Must Stop Now
As business and community leaders, British Columbians, and human beings we cannot sit idly by. What we condone, we accept, and we cannot accept the growing racism and hate directed at people because o...
May 21, 2020
Trudeau pledges help to increase COVID-19 testing in Ontario and Quebec
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will be speaking with the premiers today about how Ottawa can help provinces massively scale up their COVID-19 testing capacity to fend off a p...
May 21, 2020
Trudeau promises $75M more for off-reserve Indigenous services in pandemic
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is sending $75 million to organizations that help Indigenous people living in urban areas and off reserves through the COVID-19 pande...
May 21, 2020
Trudeau says citizens should wear masks to stave off second COVID-19 wave
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says individual actions will be key to controlling an expected second wave of COVID-19, and he is repeating a call for people to wear masks in public. Trudeau to...
May 21, 2020
Quebec retailers see slower sales, changed customer behaviour since reopening
MONTREAL - More than two weeks after being allowed to reopen following the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, Quebec store owners are finding that permission to open up doesn't mean a return to ...
May 21, 2020
US existing home sales plunge 17.8% in April
WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes plunged 17.8% in April with the real estate market still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that last mon...
May 21, 2020