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Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:11:57 -0700
Trump-backed candidates face scrutiny after minimal vetting
WASHINGTON (AP) — One has been accused of assaulting another White House aide. Another allegedly threatened his ex-wife’s life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with his erratic behavior. A third has asked a...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 18:57:17 -0700
Victoria police ask for help in finding man
Victoria police are asking for public help in finding a man last seen in the city in 2018.Dominic Cormack, 52, was reported missing by his family in Alberta.Cormack is described as white, five-foot-nine and 165 pounds with a medium build. He has dark...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:50:47 -0700
B.C. reaches $65M funding deal with First Nation after Supreme Court ruling
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government has signed an agreement with a First Nation to provide $65 million in funding to support land restoration and cultural programs, four months after a court ruled the province had breached the nation's rights.Indigenou...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:10:38 -0700
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,416.21, up 224.55 points.)The Toronto-Dominion Bank. (TSX:TD). Financials. Down eight cents, or 0.09 per cent, to $85.42 on 7.1 mil...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:52:42 -0700
Quebec premier to prorogue legislature, with new session starting Oct. 19
Quebec Premier François Legault says he will prorogue the province's legislature and a new session will begin Oct. 19.Legault made the announced Thursday afternoon in a news release, but the decision must be approved by his cabinet and it won't be o...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:35:15 -0700
Hot tub on wheels: Suit says party vehicle lacks pool permit
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee entrepreneur whose hot tub on wheels is one of downtown Nashville’s best-known party vehicles has been told to stop operating a public swimming pool without a permit, a lawsuit says.Nashville’s metropolitan g...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:14:52 -0700
A look at COVID-19 vaccine certificate programs across Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will be mandatory for people travelling by air and rail by the end of October. By the end of November, all travellers will need to be vaccinated. Here's...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:48:53 -0700
Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments cut by Trump
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden will expand two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of long-running public lands tug-of-war between presidential administrations, the state’s governor said Thursday.Gov. Spen...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:34:11 -0700
Friends, rivals Collaros and Harris set to clash when Bombers host Elks
WINNIPEG — Quarterbacks Zach Collaros and Trevor Harris may be foes on the football field, but they’re also friends who support each other.Harris and the Edmonton Elks (2-5) visit Collaros and the CFL-leading Blue Bombers (7-1) Friday, marking Ha...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:17:10 -0700
COVID-19 shot 'could save your life,' RCMP boss says after federal vaccination order
OTTAWA — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is publicly touting vaccination against COVID-19 following the Liberal government's announcement that Mounties must be immunized.In a tweet Thursday, Lucki urged getting vaccinated without delay, saying it co...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:17:00 -0700
Family concerned for Nanaimo man's well-being
UPDATE: Jonathan Jones has been found and is safe.  Nanaimo RCMP are searching for a 30-year-old man whose family has not heard from him for more than five weeks. Jonathan Jones was reported missing by his family on Sunday. Relatives told ...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:56:47 -0700
Expert tells Nunavut inquest many police tools not effective in cold weather
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut — A use of force expert says an RCMP officer who shot and killed an armed man in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, in 2016 didn't have effective, less-lethal options he could have used that day.Sgt. Brad Fawcett told a coroner's inquest into...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:55:16 -0700
Chief of Joyce Echaquan's community says trust in Quebec health-care system returning
JOLIETTE, Que. — Members of an Atikamekw community northeast of Montreal are slowly regaining their trust in Quebec's health-care system, a year after Joyce Echaquan died in a hospital northeast of Montreal, according to Chief Paul-Émile Ottawa."C...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:44:53 -0700
Court says Ronaldo rape lawsuit in Vegas should be dismissed
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal magistrate judge in Nevada has sided with Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers against a woman who sued for more than the $375,000 in hush money she received in 2010 after saying the international soccer star raped her in Las Ve...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:36:20 -0700
Opposition Liberals grill New Democrat responses to wildfire recovery, heat wave
VICTORIA — The plight of the residents of the British Columbia village of Lytton that was all but destroyed in a wildfire this summer gained political focus Thursday in the provincial legislature. Jackie Tegart, the Liberal member for Fraser-Nico...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:26:51 -0700
Abortions resume in some Texas clinics after judge halts law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortions quickly resumed in at least six Texas clinics on Thursday after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., but other physicians remained hesitant, afraid the court order would not stand for ...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:17:47 -0700
Gunman who killed agent on Amtrak train in Arizona ID'd
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Officials on Thursday identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak train in Arizona as Darrion Taylor. The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson said ...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:46:59 -0700
Government consulting with remote Indigenous communities about mandatory vaccines
OTTAWA — The federal government is working on exemptions to its newly released mandatory vaccine policy for people in remote Indigenous communities, many of which are only accessible by airplane. The new policy calls for travellers over the age of ...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:39:32 -0700
Quebec man arrested after 4-day Amber Alert now faces nine additional charges
MONTREAL — A Quebec man arrested after an Amber Alert that spanned four days is now facing nine additional charges.The 36-year-old man, who was arrested on Sept. 5 in Ste-Paule, Que., roughly 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, has now been ch...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:20:37 -0700
No response from PM to Kamloops invitation an 'insult': B.C. First Nation
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nation says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "missed an opportunity" to show his commitment to the survivors of residential schools by not replying to its invitations to take part in an event markin...



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