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Roughly 100 kids living in trucks involved in Ottawa convoy protest: police
OTTAWA - Roughly 100 kids are living in the trucks idling on the streets of downtown Ottawa during the cold, noisy and prolonged protest that has grabbed hold of the capital, police say. Police office...
Feb 08, 2022

College athlete group files complaint, seeks employee status
An advocacy group filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday, the latest step in a push to give employee status to college athletes and afford them the right to competitive p...
Feb 08, 2022

Commons calls for halt to collection of COVID-19 phone data over privacy concerns
OTTAWA - The House of Commons voted today to call on the Public Health Agency of Canada to halt its plans to collect data from millions of mobile phones to help understand travel patterns during the C...
Feb 08, 2022

Shaq, Usher and Drake shows all highlight Super Bowl week
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shaquille O'Neal will return to the city where he helped the Los Angeles Lakers win three straight championships. This time, O'Neal - who moonlights as DJ Diesel - will host his car...
Feb 08, 2022

Top 20 most popular television shows for the week
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's a list of the 20 most-watched television shows in prime time for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6, their networks and viewerships: 1. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 11 million. 2. Win...
Feb 08, 2022

Canada names final roster for Women's World Cup basketball qualifier in Japan
TORONTO - Olympic veterans Natalie Achonwa, Laeticia Amihere and Bridget Carleton will lead Canada at the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2022 Qualifying Tournament. Canada opens Group C play Thursd...
Feb 08, 2022

Traffic slow through Alberta border crossing after being blocked again by protesters
COUTTS, Alta. - Traffic is flowing slowly through the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta this morning after protesters against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions blocked vehicles...
Feb 08, 2022

Conservatives split on whether convoy protest should stay or vacate Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - Conservatives appear increasingly split over whether a protest against COVID-19 health restrictions in the nation's capital should stay or go. Many Tory members of Parliament have pledged ful...
Feb 08, 2022

United States allows shipments of P.E.I. potatoes to resume to Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will allow the resumption of shipments of Prince Edward Island potatoes to Puerto Rico. Exports to Puerto Rico and the con...
Feb 08, 2022

StatCan sees lessons in pandemic census to apply for next go-round in 2026
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada's overseer of the 2021 census says there are lessons for the agency to take from the pandemic count to apply to the next census go-round. Planning for a census starts almost...
Feb 08, 2022