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Italy's Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote
ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. Wednesday night's vote in t...
Oct 26, 2022

FSIN calls on RCMP to further investigate Creighton golf course death
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is requesting RCMP further investigate the death of Tristin Jobb, 25, at the Phantom Lake Golf Club in Creighton. She died after being discovered ...
Oct 26, 2022

Canada's Auger-Aliassime advances to Round of 16 at Swiss Indoors
BASEL, Switzerland - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the Round of 16 at the Swiss Indoors with a three-set win over Switzerland's Marc-Andrea Huesler on Wednesday. The Montreal native beat ...
Oct 26, 2022

Overhaul transparency law by adopting long-standing calls for change, group tells MPs
OTTAWA - A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exce...
Oct 26, 2022

Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022

Ex-Ottawa police chief says force couldn't change much about response to convoy
OTTAWA - The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn't have done anything materially differently during the response to the "Freedom Convoy." A summary report of an interview with P...
Oct 26, 2022

‘Excited to see it continue’: The story of a graduate’s experience in Sturgeon Lake Health Center
In what's being called another step on the journey to reconciliation with First Nations peoples, a graduate from Saskatchewan Polytechnic is sharing her experience of working in a First Nations health...
Oct 26, 2022

CP NewsAlert: France denies extradition for priest facing charge in Nunavut
The federal government says France has denied an extradition request for Johannes Rivoire, a priest accused of crimes against children in Nunavut. More to come. The Canadian Press
Oct 26, 2022

Tribunal says $40B Indigenous child-welfare agreement doesn't satisfy all orders
Federal ministers and the Assembly of First Nations expressed disappointment Tuesday as the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decided against approving a historic, $40 billion child-welfare settlement ag...
Oct 26, 2022

Judge orders Meadows to testify in Georgia election probe
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allie...
Oct 26, 2022