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Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban - a development likely to drive more ...
Aug 23, 2024
Nova Scotia to roll out school lunch program to elementary grades in October
HALIFAX - Elementary students across Nova Scotia will get their first servings of the province's new school lunch program in October, says Education Minister Becky Druhan. The first phase of the pay-w...
Aug 23, 2024
Biggest diamond in over a century found in Botswana - 2,492 carats
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country's president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewi...
Aug 23, 2024
'Making history': Kamala Harris becomes first Black woman to lead major-party ticket
CHICAGO - Kamala Harris is officially the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major-party ticket after formally accepting the Democratic party's nomination Thursday. If elected, she would beco...
Aug 23, 2024
Teamsters take down picket lines at CN, stoppage continues at CPKC
OTTAWA - The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket lines at Canadian National Railway Co. and its workers will begin returning to work on Friday. However, the union said the w...
Aug 23, 2024
National security agencies should detail how they're using AI: federal advisory body
OTTAWA - A federal advisory body is calling on Canada's security agencies to publish detailed descriptions of their current and intended uses of artificial intelligence systems and software applicatio...
Aug 23, 2024
Kamala Harris at DNC summons Americans to reject divisions and defeat threat of Trump's candidacy
CHICAGO (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris called on Americans to join her to "chart a new way forward" as she accepted the Democratic nomination on Thursday, arguing her personal story and prosecuto...
Aug 22, 2024
B.C. addictions minister allowed to respond to decriminalization court challenge
VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...
Aug 22, 2024
Now is not time to balance B.C.'s budget, says Conroy as province posts $5B deficit
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget. Katrine Conroy says the New Democratic government does plan for a balanced budget "in the futu...
Aug 22, 2024
A look at recent major railway strikes Canada
Shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt Thursday after months of increasingly bitter negotiations, threatening to upend supply chains still re...
Aug 22, 2024
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