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Canada's Jourdain, Makdessi lose by decision as UFC holds first fight card in France
PARIS - Canadian featherweight Charles (Air) Jourdain lost a unanimous decision to England's Nathaniel (The Prospect) Wood on a UFC Fight Night card Saturday. The judges scored it for 30-27, 30-27, 29...
Sep 03, 2022
Quebec election: CAQ proposes two private medical centres to ease hospital strain
MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Qubec promised Saturday to build a pair of private medical centres that would provide services that would be free to Quebecers and reimbursed by medicare in an attempt ...
Sep 03, 2022
Canadian astronaut Saint-Jacques says Artemis 1 delay disappointing, but right call
MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says today's decision to scrub the launch of NASA's new moon rocket is disappointing but necessary due to another leak found ahead of the planned test...
Sep 03, 2022
Reeves: Plane threatening to crash in Mississippi lands
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a plane that was circling over northern Mississippi and whose pilot had threatened to crash it into the ground has landed safely. Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Twi...
Sep 03, 2022
Fuel leak ruins NASA's second shot at launching moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with...
Sep 03, 2022
'Beautiful, one-of-a-kind cities are under water:' Floods in Pakistan worry Canadians
Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with disabilities move out of the way of the impend...
Sep 03, 2022
Border Patrol: 9 migrants found dead in Rio Grande at Texas
At least nine migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens of people attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican of...
Sep 03, 2022
Police investigation puts fighter pilot call sign meetings under microscope
OTTAWA - A police investigation into comments made at a social gathering of fighter pilots in June has cast a spotlight on a well-known but little-understood military tradition that some worry is anot...
Sep 03, 2022
Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis doesn't care what you say about her
OTTAWA - As a highly educated immigrant Black woman with degrees in gender studies, the environment and international law, Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis says there is a "left-leaning na...
Sep 03, 2022
Leslyn Lewis: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate
OTTAWA - Leslyn Lewis burst onto the political scene during the 2020 Conservative Party leadership race and became a star in the socially conservative movement. Originally billed as the candidate with...
Sep 03, 2022
