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Montreal to fully ban plastic bags by end of 2020, mayor announces
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante says the city will move to fully ban the sale of plastic bags by the end of 2020. Plante told a city council meeting today that the current measures that limit retai...
Feb 05, 2020

Police investigating after six Co-op refinery managers’ homes paintballed
The Regina Police Service is investigating cases of mischief in the city that involve the vandalism of homes or a locked vehicle.The incidents happened Monday and Tuesday nights. A police spokesperson...
Feb 05, 2020 (Evan Radford/980 CJME)

Toronto Argonauts sign CFL veterans Tommie Campbell, Natey Adjei
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts have signed veteran American defensive back Tommie Campbell and Canadian receiver Natey Adjei. Campbell, 32, was released by the Alouettes last week after spending two ...
Feb 05, 2020

Roughriders sign Ryan to contract extension
The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Regina-born punter Jon Ryan to a one-year contract extension.Ryan was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 11.The 38-year-old is heading into his second ...
Feb 05, 2020 Saskatchewan Roughriders punter Jon Ryan. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)

'Some people were confused' about media-licensing comment, says Guilbeault
OTTAWA - The minister responsible for overhauling Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications sectors tried to reassure Canadians Monday that the federal government is not preparing to license n...
Feb 05, 2020

Air Canada plane lands safely in Madrid after tire rupture, engine issue
An Air Canada jet landed safely in Madrid Monday after engine trouble and a blown tire forced pilots to declare an emergency shortly after takeoff. The Toronto-bound Boeing 767-300 carrying ...
Feb 05, 2020

1 dead, 5 wounded in shooting on Greyhound bus in California
LOS ANGELES - A man cursing and muttering incoherently opened fire aboard a packed Greyhound bus in Southern California early Monday, killing one person and wounding five others in a seemingly random ...
Feb 05, 2020

Ontario coronavirus investigations seem to be tapering off, official says
TORONTO - The number of people being tested for the novel coronavirus in Ontario seems to be dropping as more time passes since China imposed rigid travel restrictions, the province's chief medical of...
Feb 05, 2020

Lionel Desmond offered bed on psychiatric ward, fatality inquiry told
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia has heard that the night a mentally ill former soldier sought help at a hospital in Antigonish, N.S., there were beds available in ...
Feb 05, 2020

Send black boxes from Iran plane crash to France, Champagne demands
OTTAWA - Canada's foreign minister says he's asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752. F...
Feb 05, 2020