Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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US agencies, companies secure networks after huge hack
WASHINGTON - U.S. government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion suspe...
Dec 14, 2020
GOP voters ready for Georgia runoffs despite Trump's claims
ATLANTA - Many Republican voters in Georgia are angry. They're convinced that widespread voter fraud - claims that are baseless - cost President Donald Trump the election to Democrat Joe Biden. But wi...
Dec 14, 2020
Electors meeting to formally choose Biden as next president
WASHINGTON - Presidential electors are meeting across the United States on Monday to formally choose Joe Biden as the nation's next president. Monday is the day set by law for the meeting of the Elect...
Dec 14, 2020 (The Associated Press)
Early in-person voting begins in Georgia Senate runoffs
ATLANTA - Early in-person voting began Monday in the runoff elections for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats, with lines reported to be shorter than in the first days of early voting for the general elec...
Dec 14, 2020
Senators likely to propose major amendments to assisted dying bill
OTTAWA - It was out of the political frying pan and into the fire Monday for the Trudeau government's bill to expand access to medically assisted dying. Opening debate on Bill C-7 began in the Senate,...
Dec 14, 2020
US Embassy says Sudan no longer on list of terror sponsors
CAIRO - The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that could help the African co...
Dec 14, 2020
Former PM Brian Mulroney recovering after emergency surgery
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released fr...
Dec 13, 2020
Former Liberal cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano dies
OTTAWA - Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died.He was 78.His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, whi...
Dec 13, 2020
First COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada, more en route
MONTREAL - The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister J...
Dec 13, 2020
Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...
Dec 13, 2020
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8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...
