Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Net-zero advisory body members say Ottawa risks more resignations
OTTAWA - The four remaining members of Canada's independent net-zero advisory body are calling on Ottawa to change how the group functions, and two of them say it risks more resignations if things don...
Dec 05, 2025

B.C. releases guidance for doctors on youth mental health and substance-use care
VANCOUVER - Brock Eurchuk said he felt "completely cut adrift" by British Columbia's health care system when trying to deal with health troubles of their 16-year-old son, Elliot. The teenager died fro...
Dec 05, 2025

Canadian speed skater Weideman races to 5,000-metre silver at World Cup event
HEERENVEEN - Ottawa's Isabelle Weidemann won the silver medal in the women's 5,000 metres Friday at the third event of the World Cup speed skating season. Weidemann, in a pairing with gold medallist R...
Dec 05, 2025

Canadian men to face Switzerland, Qatar and possibly Italy at 2026 World Cup
Canada's draw for next summer's World Cup started well but finished with a twist of the tail. The Canadian men, ranked 27th in the world, drew No. 17 Switzerland, the fifth-ranked team in Pot 2, and t...
Dec 05, 2025

The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the...
Dec 05, 2025

911 calls from Texas floods reveal chaotic and desperate pleas for rescues
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) - In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty in the Texas Hill Country as catastrophic flooding inundated cabins and youth camps along...
Dec 05, 2025

Indiana House Republicans pass Trump-backed map, setting up high-stakes Senate fight
Indiana state House Republicans passed a new state congressional map Friday at the behest of President Donald Trump, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmak...
Dec 05, 2025

Suspect in DC pipe bomb case said to have confessed in interviews with investigators, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) - The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack confes...
Dec 05, 2025

Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida can be released, judge rules
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday gave the Justice Department permission to release transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls in Florida - a...
Dec 05, 2025

Argentina and Messi will open their World Cup defense against Algeria. The US starts vs. Paraguay
WASHINGTON (AP) - All around the globe, eyes focused Friday on the stage where World Cup paths were sorted, nations' names chosen one by one in a draw that determined Argentina and Lionel Messi will s...
Dec 05, 2025