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Oral HIV self-test approved for sale, advocates say it's key to elimination
An oral, at-home HIV test that delivers results in as little as 20 minutes and has been used in the U.S. for well over a decade is finally coming to Canada. OraSure Technologies announced Tuesday its ...
Feb 10, 2026 Canada Post workers on the picket line were angry on Monday as they were told last week the federal government is forcing them back to work despite no new deal being reached between the company and union. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
Canadian Schellenberg 'definitely' won't face death again at China retrial: Lawyer
The head of the law firm representing Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg says their client "definitely" won't face the death penalty again after China's top court overturned the sentence and announced...
Feb 09, 2026 (Céline Grimard/650 CKOM)
Information commissioner expected to renew push for reforms to access law
Members of a House of Commons committee are expected to get an earful from information commissioner Caroline Maynard this afternoon when they launch their latest study of Canada's much-maligned transp...
Feb 09, 2026
Cuba says airlines can no longer refuel on the island as US blockade deepens energy crisis
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn't enough fuel for airplanes to refuel in the island, part of a critical energy rationing going into place as the Trump admini...
Feb 09, 2026 A Turkish Airlines plane takes off alongside an American Airlines plane at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights
WASHINGTON (AP) - House lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering question...
Feb 09, 2026 House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., joined at left by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters after a closed-circuit deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and confidante of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Vatican again OKs Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification after 2019 ceremony derailed at last minute
ROME (AP) - The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battl...
Feb 09, 2026
UK police force assesses claims ex-Prince Andrew sent sensitive trade reports to Epstein
LONDON (AP) - British police said they were examining claims that the former Prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein, as Prince William's office said he was "deeply concerned'...
Feb 09, 2026 A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, shows an email to Epstein. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
'They were brothers': Players, families remember 3 who died in Alberta highway crash
When Sawyer Smith thinks about teammates Caden Fine and JJ Wright, he remembers an instance of team tomfoolery on the golf course. He was with Cameron Casorso on the course when Fine and Wright brough...
Feb 09, 2026 A spectator takes a photo of a memorial for three hockey players killed in a car accident at the town arena before the start of the Stavely Mustang hockey game in Stavely, Alta., Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis
LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half i...
Feb 09, 2026
Canada Post gets a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles
GATINEAU - The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its ...
Feb 07, 2026 The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services running. (THE CANADIAN PRESS files/Ethan Cairns)
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