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Third party in New Brunswick loses candidate due to online comments
FREDERICTON – Another political party in New Brunswick has dropped a candidate for next week’s…
Bank CEOs juggling careful spending with new consumer habits during COVID-19
TORONTO – The CEOs of Canada’s big banks say the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed their…
Derek Sloan says no regrets over failed bid for Conservative leadership
OTTAWA – Conservative MP Derek Sloan, who finished last in the party’s recent leadership race,…
Canadian rider Michael Woods wins Stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico, takes race lead
SATURNIA, Italy – Powering up a climb so steep that bystanders gave riders helping pushes,…
West Virginia hospital settles whistleblower suit for $50M
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A financially strapped West Virginia hospital has agreed to pay the federal…
Gov. Whitmer’s virus-related powers reach top Michigan court
DETROIT – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s bold use of emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic reached…
Biden visits manufacturing heartland to curry favour with blue-collar voters
WASHINGTON – Joe Biden ventured into America’s hard-hit manufacturing heartland Wednesday, promising a suite of…
Legault, Ford call on Ottawa to increase health transfers to provinces
The premiers of Ontario and Quebec are calling on Ottawa to increase health transfers to…
‘A year we will always remember’: Toronto film festival set for watershed event
TORONTO – As the co-heads of the Toronto International Film Festival tell it, planning this…
Celine Dion’s Western Canada tour dates rescheduled
LAS VEGAS – Celine Dion has announced next year’s rescheduled dates for the North American…
Companies pledge to add at least 1 Black director to board
NEW YORK – More than a dozen companies, including Zillow and M.M.LaFleur, are promising to…
UN protection back for threatened Nobel-winning Congo doctor
JOHANNESBURG – For weeks, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Congolese doctor has faced death threats, leading…
Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China
TOKYO – China’s repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama and its…
Steve Nash eager to get started on new career as Nets coach
NEW YORK – Steve Nash was a leader, a guy who loved to get the…
Potential Wolfpack owner Carlo LiVolsi says he will take care of players
TORONTO – The Toronto Wolfpack are currently a team without a league, an insolvent rugby…
Mandela’s lawyer, anti-apartheid activist George Bizos dies
JOHANNESBURG – Anti-apartheid campaigner and Nelson Mandela’s personal lawyer George Bizos has died at 92,…
Statistics Canada rejigs low-income stats, showing growing poverty gap
OTTAWA – Canadians living well below the low-income threshold had fallen further behind in the…
Trump raises $210 million, robust but well short of Biden
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump and his Republican Party jointly raised $210 million in…
Learn the lessons of history, don’t ‘cancel’ them, new Tory leader O’Toole says
OTTAWA – New Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said Wednesday that plaques, not protests, should grace…
UN: COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation
TANZANIA, Tanzania – Top U.N. officials warned Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated discrimination…
McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize
NEW YORK – Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for…
Fire on tanker off Sri Lanka under control, ship towed away
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The fire on a large oil tanker off Sri Lanka’s coast…
UN chief warns of famine risk in 4 countries
TANZANIA, Tanzania – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine…
Spanish doctors hope beach trips can help ICU virus patients
BARCELONA, Spain – After nearly two months of being sedated and connected to IV lines…