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Ottawa eyeing U.S.-made surveillance planes for Canadian Armed Forces
OTTAWA - Canada is looking at buying a fleet of military surveillance aircraft from U.S. aerospace giant Boeing without a competition. The federal Procurement Department says Canada has submitted a le...
Mar 27, 2023

All critical minerals and rare earth elements belong to First Nations: FSIN
A statement by the FSIN says that all rare earth elements and critical minerals in the province belong to First Nations. The statement is a response to what the organization says is a failure by the p...
Mar 27, 2023

Herdman laments labour dispute between national teams and Canada Soccer
TORONTO - Canada coach John Herdman paused when the issue of the men's and women's teams' ongoing labour dispute with Canada Soccer came up in his pre-game availability Monday ahead of a CONCACAF Nati...
Mar 27, 2023

Sandy Bay man pleads guilty to manslaughter, sentenced to seven years in prison
A northern Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to seven years in prison.Lenny Sinclair, 25, from Sandy Bay, was initially facing a second-degree murder charge in...
Mar 27, 2023

A look at some of the seven victims who perished in Old Montreal fire
Montreal police said seven people perished in a fire that swept through an Old Montreal building on the morning of March 16. Victims are from Ontario, Quebec and the United States. After discovering t...
Mar 27, 2023

Canada extends, shrinks anti-ISIL 'Operation Impact' mission in the Middle East
OTTAWA - Canada is extending a scaled-down version of its military mission in Iraq and the Middle East for another two years. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the extension Monday afternoon, bef...
Mar 27, 2023

Cerundolo upsets Canada's Auger-Aliassime in Miami Open third round
MIAMI - Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Miami Open after being upset 6-2, 7-5 in a third-round match with Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo. Cerundolo, ranked 25th in Miami, scored a cruc...
Mar 27, 2023

Sask. medical grad highlighting barriers for future doctors
A medical school graduate from Regina wishes he was seeing Saskatchewan patients, but that's not the case.Jamie Eng completed his medical degree at Poland's Medical University of Lublin in 2014, and h...
Mar 27, 2023

B.C. plans family law changes to decide who gets the pets when couples split
VICTORIA - The important role pets play in families who are separating is being addressed in proposed amendments to British Columbia's Family Law Act. Attorney General Niki Sharma says amendments she ...
Mar 27, 2023

NJ takes over Paterson police after crisis worker's shooting
PATERSON, N.J. - New Jersey's attorney general said Monday that his office has taken control of the police department in the state's third-largest city, Paterson, less than a month after officers ther...
Mar 27, 2023