Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Economy lost 207,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate rises, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Canada's labour market lost 207,000 jobs last month as a spike in COVID-19 variant cases led to renewed public health restrictions and raised concerns about longer-term economic consequences ...
May 07, 2021
Trust in vaccines growing in Canada, but some get more love than others
OTTAWA - A new survey from Proof Strategies suggests it's not only Canada's national vaccine advisers who have a "preferred" vaccine.The survey of 1,500 people taken during the first three days of May...
May 07, 2021
Canadian on death row says execution may be 'preferable' to endless prison time
Ronald Smith sounds tired. Despite good news last month, when a bill to resume executions in Montana was unexpectedly defeated, the Canadian on death row in that state is in a sombre mood. Smith, orig...
May 07, 2021
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms not seeking reelection
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday she will not seek a second term, an election-year surprise that marks a sharp turnabout for the city's second Black woman executive who months ago...
May 06, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Friday, May 7, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, May 7, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 350,701 new vaccinations administered for a total of 14,918,768 ...
May 06, 2021
Canada will not participate in Durban IV conference amid anti-Semitism concerns
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says the federal government will not be taking part in 20th-anniversary events for an international conference where Israel was singled out for condemnation. In...
May 06, 2021
PM's chief of staff offers to testify on Vance sexual misconduct allegations
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff has offered to testify at a House of Commons committee investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against Canada's former top military comma...
May 06, 2021
Canada must sanction Vladimir Putin's oligarchs: Alexei Navalny's chief of staff
OTTAWA - The chief of staff to Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned critic of the Russian president, is calling on Ottawa to impose new sanctions on those who he described as "Vladimir Putin's oligarchs." L...
May 06, 2021
Blinken reaffirms US support for Ukraine amid Russia tension
KYIV, Ukraine - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington's support for Ukraine at a meeting Thursday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the wake of Kyiv's heightened tensions wi...
May 06, 2021
US sends more warplanes to protect pullout from Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a final withdrawal from Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents step up...
May 06, 2021
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