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Lights back on for almost all BC Hydro customers who lost power in strong winds
British Columbia's Crown utility says crews have restored power to 95 per cent of some 290,000 businesses and homes that were in the dark at some point Monday as strong winds battered coastal areas an...
Nov 05, 2024
Business groups say B.C. port stoppage will hurt companies, Canadian economy
Business groups say the work stoppage at B.C. ports is the latest in a run of supply chain disruptions affecting Canadian companies and the country's economy. Employers at most of the province's ports...
Nov 05, 2024
Preparation for next president started months ago, Trudeau's cabinet says
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says the Trudeau government is in a better position to manage trade negotiations with the next American president than it was the last time it signed a de...
Nov 05, 2024
Eleven-year-old boy struck and killed by truck in Montreal
MONTREAL - An 11-year-old boy died after he was hit by a truck Monday evening in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. Police say they received numerous calls at around 7:30 p.m. about the collision ...
Nov 05, 2024
Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews out day-to-day with upper-body injury
TORONTO - Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews will miss Tuesday's game against the Boston Bruins with an upper-body injury. The Toronto centre, who's listed as day-to-day, has five goals and 11 points...
Nov 05, 2024
French court convicts 18 in a major trial that casts light on the deadly migrant-smuggling trade
LILLE, France (AP) - A French court found 18 people guilty Tuesday in a major migrant-smuggling trial that shed light on the lucrative but often deadly clandestine business of transporting people on f...
Nov 05, 2024
French court convicts 18 in a trial casting light on the deadly migrant smuggling trade
LILLE, France (AP) - A French court in Lille on Tuesday found 18 defendants guilty in a migrant smuggling trial linked to the dangerous English Channel crossings. The group was charged after a 2022 po...
Nov 05, 2024
Demonstration outside Brampton Hindu temple broken up after weapons spotted: police
A Hindu temple in Brampton, Ont., where violence erupted over the weekend was the site of another demonstration on Monday night that police broke up after they say weapons were spotted in the crowd. P...
Nov 05, 2024
Canada's Dabrowski and New Zealand's Routliffe pick up second win at WTA Finals
RIYADH - Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe remain undefeated in women's doubles at the WTA Finals. The 2023 U.S. Open champions, seeded second at the event, secured a 1-6, 7...
Nov 05, 2024
A week after Spain's floods, families hold out hope that loved ones are not among the dead
SEDAVI, Spain (AP) - Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise. He never came back. One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, Mara Mur...
Nov 05, 2024