Murray Wood: Requiem for a newsman
Murray Wood says there's a reason there'll never be another Lloyd Robertson in Canada, and it isn't just because of the ...
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Government: Colombia manual coca eradication most in decade
BOGOTA - Colombia manually eradicated 130,000 hectares of coca crops in 2020, the highest figure in the last decade, the government said. The figure easily tops the 94,670 hectares of coca manually er...
Dec 30, 2020
Police on report man was making bombs: 'Hindsight is 20/20'
NASHVILLE - More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a Christmas Day bomb in downtown Nashville, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police he was building bombs in a recreatio...
Dec 30, 2020
Trump push on $2K checks flops as GOP-led Senate won't vote
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but shut the door Wednesday on President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks, declaring Congress has provided enough pandemic ...
Dec 30, 2020
Wisconsin health system: Worker deliberately spoiled vaccine
GRAFTON, Wis. - A Wisconsin health system said Wednesday that 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine that had to be discarded after they were left unrefrigerated now appear to have been deliberately spoiled...
Dec 30, 2020
Trump makes 2nd request to Supreme Court over Wisconsin loss
MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his election loss in Wisconsin, his second appeal in as many days to the high court over the result in the ...
Dec 30, 2020
Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honours
LONDON - Lewis Hamilton is now a "Sir" as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honours list, which also recogn...
Dec 30, 2020
China OKs 1st homegrown vaccine as COVID-19 surges globally
BEIJING - China authorized its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use Thursday, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the globe. The...
Dec 30, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020.There are 572,982 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 572,982 confirmed cases (72,927 active, 48...
Dec 30, 2020
Florida suspect kills Wisconsin siblings in wrong-way crash
Two Wisconsin siblings returning from a Christmas lights display were killed Tuesday night when a suspected carjacker fleeing from police drove the wrong way on Interstate 95 in central Florida and co...
Dec 30, 2020
Heavy snow expected in Texas; storm could spawn tornadoes
AUSTIN, Texas - A winter storm moving across southwestern Texas on Wednesday could dump more than a foot (0.30 metres) of snow before moving eastward and possibly spawning tornadoes in parts of Texas,...
Dec 30, 2020
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8:30 - The Saskatchewan government is throwing its support behind new event centre projects in Saskatoon, Prince Albert,...
