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Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber to face trial in September 2023
OTTAWA - Two of the main "Freedom Convoy" organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are expected to face trial in September 2023 for charges related to the massive protest that gridlocked downtown Ott...
Aug 30, 2022
Hockey Canada board throws support behind Smith amid calls for change
Hockey Canada's board of directors says it is supporting president and chief executive officer Scott Smith and his executive team amid calls for leadership change at the organization. Interim board ch...
Aug 30, 2022
World beach volleyball champions Pavan, Humana-Paredes are ending their partnership
Canada's world beach volleyball champions Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes are ending their partnership. Pavan, from Kitchener, Ont., and Humana-Paredes, from Toronto, have played together since...
Aug 30, 2022
Over half of Conservative members have voted for new leader one week before deadline
OTTAWA - More than half of Conservative party members have returned their leadership ballots with one week left before the deadline on Sept. 6. The party says just over 350,000 ballots have been recei...
Aug 30, 2022
Ottawa invokes pipeline treaty, infant death in B.C.: In The News for Aug. 30
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 30 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Aug 30, 2022
Polls say question in Quebec election is not who will win, but who will come second
MONTREAL - With the Coalition Avenir Qubec party dominating the polls at the start of the provincial election campaign, the most pressing question of the race may not be who wins, but who comes in sec...
Aug 30, 2022
Pete the peacock remains on the lam about two months after escape from N.B. garden
FREDERICTON - Pete the peacock flew the coop on his first night in Kingsbrae Garden, on the southern shores of New Brunswick. That was about two months ago - and it's been a wild goose chase ever sinc...
Aug 30, 2022
Quebec election: CAQ heads into territory strongly contested by upstart Conservatives
QUEBEC - Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault is holding a news conference this morning in a riding strongly contested by the upstart Conservative Party of Quebec. Beauce-Sud, south of Quebec...
Aug 30, 2022
AP Was There: Diana's final hours, on a tragic Paris night
PARIS (AP) - An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city's floodlit treasures. And then, tragedy. The story of Princess Diana's death at age 36 in that catastrophic cra...
Aug 30, 2022
Iran closes border to Iraq, flights stop amid violent unrest
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iran closed its land borders to Iraq as flights to the country halted Tuesday amid violence in Baghdad following an influential Shiite cleric's announcement he would resign from politic...
Aug 30, 2022