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SpaceX ready to launch NASA astronauts, back on home turf
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A SpaceX rocket is ready to boost two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, the first launch of Americans from the U.S. in nearly a decade. Liftoff is set for 4:33 p.m. EDT from...
May 27, 2020
Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of black man
MINNEAPOLIS - To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was ho...
May 27, 2020
COVID-19 rent aid for businesses, landlords to cost $520 million, PBO says
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog estimates a federal program aimed at giving small businesses a break on their rent could cost the public purse $520 million this fiscal year. Budget officer Yve...
May 27, 2020
Search continues for missing N.L. fisherman Wednesday after three bodies found
ST. LAWRENCE, N.L. - The search for a fisherman missing since Monday evening is continuing off the south coast of Newfoundland today after the bodies of three others from the lost vessel were rec...
May 27, 2020
Twenty-nine of Canada's 48 national parks to reopen to day-use visitors June 1
More than half of Canada's national parks - including Banff in Alberta, Pacific Rim in British Columbia and Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia - are to reopen June 1. M...
May 27, 2020
Long-term care home report and JK Rowling's new story; In The News for May 27
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 May 27 ... --- C...
May 27, 2020
How much will be enough when it comes to Canada's COVID-19 supply?
OTTAWA - A high-profile announcement by the Liberals this week that automotive giant General Motors would make 10 million medical masks omitted a detail that speaks to the long road ahead in Canada's ...
May 27, 2020
Some employees miss working in air-conditioned spaces as central Canada sizzles
Natasha Burtenshaw-deVries lives in one of several apartments in a converted house in Brantford, Ont., that doesn't have central air conditioning. Her mom purchased her "a bit of a pity gift" of a win...
May 27, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on May 27, 2020: There are 86,648 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 48,598 confirmed (includ...
May 27, 2020
Key court ruling coming today in Meng extradition case
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court is scheduled to release a key decision today in the American extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Justice Heather Holmes is relea...
May 27, 2020