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Kovrig, Spavor are 'inspiring' and 'robust' in Chinese prison, says Canada's envoy
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are physically and mentally well and showing inspiring resilience as they near the end of their second year of imprisonment...
Dec 08, 2020

B.C. ministers pay tribute to Joseph Arvay, lawyer and civil rights champion
VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general paid tribute Tuesday to a lawyer he credited with reforming Canada's legal landscape and fighting for the rights of all Canadians throughout his lifetime...
Dec 08, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Alberta tightens COVID restrictions; closes restaurants, casinos, gyms
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province relentlessly pounded by thousands of new COVID-19 cases, has reintroduced strict economic lockdown rules and banned all outdoor social gatherings....
Dec 08, 2020

AP source: NHL players balk at changing CBA, league moves on
NHL players have balked at changing the collective bargaining agreement and the league is preparing to open the season Jan. 13 after starting training camp on New Year's Day, a person with knowledge o...
Dec 08, 2020

AP sources: Biden picks Rep. Marcia Fudge as housing chief
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge as his housing and urban development secretary, according to three people familiar with the decision. Fudge was first elected...
Dec 08, 2020

HDHF received $100,000 donation from Humboldt Good Neighbour Store
The Humboldt District Hospital Foundation (HDHF) has received a massive, $100,000 donation from the Humboldt Good Neighbour Store.The Good Neighbour Store in Humboldt takes donated items from the publ...
Dec 08, 2020

Saga over senator who posted anti-Indigenous letters continues in Senate
OTTAWA - Lynn Beyak, the senator who posted derogatory letters about Indigenous people on her website, once again faces the prospect of expulsion from the Senate. The Senate's ethics committee recomme...
Dec 08, 2020

Things remain quiet on Blue Jays' front but that could change at any time
A quick signing at the start of baseball's free-agency period has been followed by a month-long period of relative inactivity for the Toronto Blue Jays. Baseball's ongoing virtual winter meetings coul...
Dec 08, 2020

'First Cow,' 'Nomadland' top AP's best films of 2020
Good movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped. In a year that often felt like its own kind of cataclysmic Hollywood production, the movies - even if relegated to smaller screens -...
Dec 08, 2020

High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground. The court wi...
Dec 08, 2020