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Wayne Gretzky rookie card first hockey card to break $1-million milestone
Wayne Gretzky's name appears at No. 1 an astounding 60 times in the NHL's record book. More than two decades after retiring, The Great One set another high-water mark early Friday morning. A mint cond...
Dec 11, 2020
More arrests made in dispute over Indigenous lobster fishing in Nova Scotia: RCMP
MIDDLE WEST PUBNICO, N.S. - The Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed today they have arrested 21 people as they continue to investigate a violent confrontation at a lobster pound at the centre of a dispute over...
Dec 11, 2020
US wholesale prices up 0.1% in November; food and energy up
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices edged up 0.1% in November as the cost of both food and energy were up. The increase in the producer price index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach...
Dec 11, 2020
Anthony Veasna So, acclaimed fiction writer, dead at age 28
NEW YORK - The author of a highly anticipated debut story collection has died. Anthony Veasna So was 28. His death was announced Thursday by his publisher, Ecco, which did not immediately provide addi...
Dec 11, 2020
Argentina's lower house approves draft legalizing abortion
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Lawmakers in Argentina's lower house on Friday passed a bill that would legalize abortion in most cases, responding to long-sought demands from women's rights activists. The ...
Dec 11, 2020
Hezbollah member sentenced to life in Hariri assassination
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands - A U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced a member of the Hezbollah militant group to life imprisonment Friday for his involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime...
Dec 11, 2020
Ontario's vaccine rollout plan and charges in Beirut blast: In The News for Dec. 11
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kick-start your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 11 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Dec 11, 2020
Tipping point? Experts say the Paris agreement changed the climate on climate
Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. "I've always known we're not going to act as soon as we could have," said Mark Jaccard, a wid...
Dec 11, 2020
Canada not immune to QAnon as pandemic fuels conspiracy theories, experts say
Conspiracy theories, including those propagated by the once-fringe QAnon movement, have gained traction as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels fear, social and economic insecurity, and mistrust in authorities...
Dec 11, 2020
Kids need media literacy education to match the rise of social networks: experts
Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what's real and what's fake or misleading online, experts say. The rise of social media has led to the p...
Dec 11, 2020