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IOC rubber-stamps Olympic medal upgrade for Canada's men's relay team at Tokyo Games
OTTAWA - Canada's men's 4x100-metre relay team from the Tokyo Olympics has officially been upgraded to silver nine months after they raced to bronze. The International Olympic Committee rubber-stamped...
May 19, 2022

Sasakamoose memorialized at SaskTel Centre
Hundreds of people gathered outside SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon on Wednesday to commemorate the second Fred Sasakamoose Day with a special reveal.There wasn't much sun in the sky to glisten off the 25...
May 19, 2022

Biden meets Sweden, Finland leaders to talk NATO, Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday welcomed the leaders of Sweden and Finland to the White House, as he hailed the applications of the once-neutral countries to join the North Atlantic ...
May 19, 2022

Done deal: CFL, players’ association reach tentative agreement
The CFL and CFL Players' Association have reached a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement, ending a players' strike that started Sunday.The league tweeted out the news Wednesday even...
May 19, 2022

Expert says N.B. police officer who fatally shot woman was right to use lethal force
FREDERICTON - An expert in Canadian policing says the New Brunswick officer who killed a 26-year-old Indigenous woman during a wellness check two years ago was following police training. Chris Butler ...
May 19, 2022

NATO chief: Dispute over Sweden, Finland will be resolved
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday he was "confident that we will come to a quick decision to welcome both Sweden and Finland to join the NATO family" des...
May 19, 2022

Jordan's king puts half-brother under formal house arrest
JERUSALEM (AP) - Jordan king has gone public with a royal rift with his half-brother and formalized the former crown prince's house arrest, calling him "erratic" in an unprecedented harshly worded pub...
May 19, 2022

Grand jury indicts man in Buffalo supermarket shooting
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket appeared briefly in court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge. Assis...
May 19, 2022

Montreal public health to provide update on suspected presence of rare monkeypox
MONTREAL - Public health authorities in Montreal will provide an update today on the suspected presence of monkeypox in the city. Dr. Mylne Drouin, the city's public health director, and Dr. Genevive ...
May 19, 2022

Top court won't hear ex-OPP deputy commissioner's appeal over lawsuit against Ford
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a former high-ranking Ontario Provincial Police officer over his bid to sue Premier Doug Ford for defamation. Former OPP deputy commis...
May 19, 2022