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Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon finishes sixth in super-G at worlds
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy - Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon tied a career-best world championships result with a sixth-place finish in the super-G, while Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami dashed to gold on ...
Feb 11, 2021
Road warriors: Toronto Raptors will have to complete home schedule in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. - The Toronto Raptors will play all their home games in Tampa, Fla., this season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The NBA team said Thursday the team will complete its home schedule at Am...
Feb 11, 2021
Bloc leader spells out demands ahead of spring budget, stressing health care
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is laying out his demands ahead of the spring budget, with greater health transfers to provinces and more support for seniors at the top of his list....
Feb 11, 2021
Canadian Seger finishes just off podium in super-G at world championships
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy - Canada's Brodie Seger finished a career-best fourth in the men's super-G at the alpine skiing world championships on Thursday. The top three faced some anxious moments when&...
Feb 11, 2021
Nunavut hunters agree to end protest at iron ore mine after offer of a meeting
Lawyers for Inuit hunters blocking an airstrip and road at an iron ore mine in Nunavut say the group will end its protest. The blockade started a week ago after seven hunters travelled two days and ov...
Feb 11, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 11:15 a.m. New Brunswick is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 and one more COVID-related death. Chief medical officer of healt...
Feb 11, 2021
Cancelling school break, delayed election: Provinces mull ways to slow COVID spread
Newfoundland and Labrador's chief electoral officer is calling for the province's election to be delayed and Ontario officials are to decide whether to cancel March break as provinces mull ways to les...
Feb 11, 2021
Closing housing gap for urban Indigenous could cost $1.4 billion a year, PBO says
OTTAWA - A new report by the parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to spend about $1.4 billion more a year to close a housing gap facing urban Indigenous people. That cos...
Feb 11, 2021
York United's Dominick Zator hopes Swedish loan will lead to Canada recall
Dominick Zator hopes the road to the national team leads through Sweden. That's why the 26-year-old defender is wearing the colours of Vasalunds IF these days, on loan from York United FC ahead of the...
Feb 11, 2021
Conservative election campaign ads violated copyright, CBC says
TORONTO - The CBC says Conservative election campaign ads violated Canadian copyright laws. The public broadcaster says in court that the ads did not reflect CBC's balanced news coverage or fairly rep...
Feb 11, 2021
