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'Baba Yaga' introduces with a virtual reality movie premiere
Last week Daisy Ridley and Jennifer Hudson went to a movie premiere together. They posed for photos and made remarks from a stage while an audience watched quietly. Or, more accurately, their avatars ...
Jan 22, 2021
Ontario recovers $11M allegedly taken by senior civil servant accused of fraud
TORONTO - A former senior employee with the Ontario government has repaid more than $11 million in COVID-19 benefits the province alleges he took fraudulently, his lawyer said Friday. The unproven civ...
Jan 22, 2021
A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis
Nearly a year to the day after the Chinese city of Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that had already escaped, President Joe Biden began putting into effect a new war plan for fighting the o...
Jan 22, 2021
Federal public safety minister suspends sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has suspended the sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles, two days after a man in Nova Scotia was arrested for allegedly impersonating an officer while driving...
Jan 22, 2021
'Our Friend' is an opportunity for a good cry - if wanted
NEW YORK - If his new movie, " Our Friend, " makes audiences cry, Jason Segel can sympathize. He recalls being on an airplane and watching a movie that made him break down so uncontrollably that it go...
Jan 22, 2021
Provinces doing 'extraordinary' job to avoid wasting doses of COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to calm anxieties over COVID-19 vaccines Friday by reporting that the CEO of Pfizer is promising Canada's deliveries will be fully restored in three weeks....
Jan 22, 2021
Look past Keystone XL to areas of mutual Canada-U.S. alignment, Trudeau suggests
WASHINGTON - Canada and Joe Biden’s White House will agree more than they disagree, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday as he urged people to look past the new U.S. president’s decis...
Jan 22, 2021
New advocacy group launches pre-election ad campaign against O'Toole, Conservatives
OTTAWA - A new third-party advocacy group is launching an ad campaign aimed at ensuring Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole never becomes prime minister. The Protecting Canada Project is airing its first...
Jan 22, 2021
Hank Aaron, baseball's one-time home run king, dies at 86
ATLANTA - His name is all over the baseball record book and, indeed, Hank Aaron could do it all. Sure, he's remembered mostly for dethroning the Babe to become baseball's home run king on the way to 7...
Jan 22, 2021
Justin Trudeau mulls mandatory hotel quarantine for returning travellers
The federal government is mulling a mandatory quarantine in hotels for returning travellers as the country's top doctor warns that easing COVID-19 restrictions too quickly could cause case numbers to ...
Jan 22, 2021
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