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Canada has secured second charter flight out of Wuhan, set to leave next week
The federal government has chartered a second flight to bring Canadians home from the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak next week. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne s...
Feb 6, 2020
Health officials investigating Imperial Tobacco ad campaign on vaping
MONTREAL - Health Canada and its provincial counterpart in Quebec are investigating a widely disseminated Imperial Tobacco advertisement on vaping to see whether it violates advertising laws...
Feb 6, 2020
Transportation board investigation into deadly B.C. derailment enters next phase
CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board says a year after a fatal train derailment near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary, it is ready to compile the information it has gathered into a repo...
Feb 6, 2020
Fiery train derailment in Saskatchewan, residents evacuated from area
GUERNSEY, Sask. - A freight train derailed in rural Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and residents were being evacuated from the area. The train jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near G...
Feb 6, 2020
Top Ontario health official says coronavirus surveillance is widening
TORONTO - Ontario's chief medical officer of health says surveillance for novel coronavirus in the province is widening outside of those who have recently travelled to the affected regions of China. I...
Feb 6, 2020
Liberals revive Rona Ambrose's bill on sexual assault law training for judges
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has picked up a cause formerly championed by senior Conservative Rona Ambrose, bringing in a bill aimed at ensuring judges are trained in sexual-assault law. The n...
Feb 6, 2020
Quebec to table provincial budget March 10 with emphasis on environment
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says the province's fiscal 2020-21 budget will be tabled March 10. It will be Girard's second budget since the Coalition Avenir Quebec won government in 2...
Feb 6, 2020
Quebec premier demands Trudeau cut federal funding to Bill 21 legal challenge
Quebec Premier Francois Legault is lashing out at the Trudeau government after learning a Montreal school board had reportedly received federal funds to contest the province's secularism law in c...
Feb 6, 2020
Former Canadian captain Paul Stalteri joins York 9 FC as assistant coach
TORONTO - York 9 FC will have two Canada Soccer Hall of Famers on its sideline this season. Former Canadian captain Paul Stalteri has joined the Canadian Premier League team as Jimmy Brennan's first a...
Feb 6, 2020
Leafs' Andersen day-to-day with neck injury; Hutchinson starts Wednesday
TORONTO - It's still unclear when exactly Maple Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen got hurt. What's certain, however, is that Toronto will be minus its most im...
Feb 6, 2020
