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Canadian throwers stole the show in 2023 with historic world athletics performances
Canada threw itself onto the track and field map - quite literally - with some history-making performances at the 2023 world athletics championships. Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers won the men's and...
Dec 20, 2023
Editors explain why they chose wildfires as Canadian news story of the year
Canadian wildfires were the first choice for The Canadian Press news story of the year, as voted by editors in newsrooms across the country. Here is a sampling of comments from editors who identified ...
Dec 20, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Record-shattering 2023 wildfires voted Canadian news story of the year
HALIFAX - The wildfires that disrupted the lives of thousands of Canadians - and shattered records for the amount of forest burned - have been voted The Canadian Press story of the year. An unusually ...
Dec 20, 2023
One dead, RCMP officer injured after incident on Red Earth Cree Nation; SIRT investigating
One man has died and an RCMP officer was injured after an incident on the Red Earth Cree Nation.At around 3:40 Tuesday morning, Carrot River RCMP were called to the community for reports of a gun bein...
Dec 20, 2023
In the news today: Pharmacare not a priority for most and East Coast outages persist
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Pharmacare not a top health priority for most Canadians As Liberals and New Dem...
Dec 20, 2023
Hamas says its top leader has arrived in Cairo for talks on the war in Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas' top leader arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for talks on the war in Gaza, the militant group said in a statement. The visit by Ismail Haniyeh came a day after Hama...
Dec 20, 2023
Canadian with parents in Gaza fears illness might kill them amid terrible conditions
Ahmed Abudaya worries that even if near-constant airstrikes don't kill his parents, the respiratory and bacterial infections spreading rapidly among displaced civilians in Gaza just might. The Alberta...
Dec 20, 2023
Pharmacare not the top health priority for most Canadians: survey
OTTAWA - As Liberals and New Democrats negotiate what a future national drug plan should look like, a new survey suggests pharmacare is not at the top of the priority list for most Canadians. The surv...
Dec 20, 2023
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023
Jessica Wallace stood in Ottawa's Rideau Hall in June as she and her co-workers at the British Columbia newspaper Kamloops This Week were recognized as finalists for the Michener Award, a top journali...
Dec 20, 2023
Coyotes rally past Senators 4-3 to spoil Jacques Martin's return
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Michael Kesselring scored with 3:33 remaining to cap a four-goal comeback in the Arizona Coyotes' 4-3 National Hockey League victory over Ottawa on Tuesday night, spoiling the retu...
Dec 19, 2023
