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Twitter turmoil fuels worry Elon Musk's free-speech vision means more social division
WASHINGTON - For a platform that once only allowed sentences as long as this one, the teeter-totter fate of Twitter sure is consuming a lot of oxygen. And new owner Elon Musk is rapidly earning a repu...
Nov 23, 2022
Three federal ministers expected to take stand at Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA - Three federal ministers are slated to testify today at the public inquiry that is scrutinizing the federal government's response to the "Freedom Convoy" protests that overran downtown Ottawa ...
Nov 23, 2022
Canadians ready for today's World Cup game against Belgium — first match since 1986
MONTREAL - Watch parties are planned across the country today as soccer fans get ready for the World Cup match between Canada and Belgium - Canada's first game in the tournament since 1986. In Montrea...
Nov 23, 2022
Unexplained wealth orders will make life harder for B.C. criminals: compliance expert
VANCOUVER - Plans by the British Columbia government to confiscate suspected proceeds of crime with "unexplained wealth orders" are drawing praise from an expert in financial compliance as a way to ma...
Nov 23, 2022
Canadians ready for today's World Cup game against Belgium — first match since 1986
MONTREAL - Watch parties are planned across the country today as soccer fans get ready for the World Cup match between Canada and Belgium - Canada's first game in the tournament since 1986. In Montrea...
Nov 23, 2022
Fiona damage 'nowhere near as severe' after $40M cost of earlier storms: Parks Canada
OTTAWA - The federal agency overseeing Canada's national parks says that $40 million in damage from two earlier Atlantic Canada storms far eclipsed costs incurred due to post-tropical storm Fiona. Par...
Nov 23, 2022
Blasts in Jerusalem wound 14; suspected Palestinian attack
JERUSALEM (AP) - Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem on Wednesday, injuring at least 14 people, in what police said were suspected attacks by Palestinians. The first explosion went off nea...
Nov 23, 2022
Alaska firefighters help rescue a moose trapped in a home
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Firefighters in Alaska got an unusual request for assistance last weekend from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, but it wasn't your mundane cat-stuck-in-a-tree situation. "They we...
Nov 23, 2022
Defense: Colorado gay club shooting suspect is nonbinary
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The alleged gunman facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is nonbinary, the suspect's defense team s...
Nov 23, 2022
Virginia police: Multiple people killed in Walmart shooting
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - Multiple people are dead and others are wounded after a shooting at a Virginia Walmart on Tuesday night, police said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the Walmart...
Nov 22, 2022