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40 residents of Vancouver street camp accept accommodation: BC Housing
VANCOUVER - BC Housing says 40 people in Vancouver who were living in a Downtown Eastside street encampment being cleared by city workers have accepted offers of accommodation. The agency's vice-presi...
Aug 24, 2022
Canadian Rourke's 2022 CFL season one for the league record book
VANCOUVER - Even if Nathan Rourke's stellar '22 season be over, it will still be one for the CFL record book. The 24-year-old Victoria native suffered a foot injury in the B.C. Lions' 28-10 road win o...
Aug 24, 2022
Jays begin 2023 on 10-day road trip before returning to renovated Rogers Centre
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will begin next season on a lengthy road trip before returning home to a renovated Rogers Centre. The Blue Jays released their schedule for the 2023 season on Wednesday...
Aug 24, 2022
Oklahoma governor rejects clemency for death row inmate
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday rejected clemency for a man facing execution this week for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the state...
Aug 24, 2022
Achonwa, Carleton, Nurse headline Canada's basketball roster for World Cup training
EDMONTON - WNBA players Natalie Achonwa, Bridget Carleton and Kia Nurse headline Canada's women's basketball roster for its pre-World Cup training camp. Nurse, a guard for the Phoenix Mercury, hasn't ...
Aug 24, 2022
Canada has short window to get ahead of U.S. hydrogen efforts, backer warns
OTTAWA - The chairman of the company behind one of the biggest proposed green hydrogen projects in Atlantic Canada says a three-year time frame to start shipping the fuel to Germany is feasible if eve...
Aug 24, 2022
Jill Biden has 'rebound' COVID-19 case, president negative
WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent "rebound" case, after she initially tested negative for the virus over the weekend. President Joe Biden, w...
Aug 24, 2022
Quebec official says Omicron-targeted bivalent vaccine ready in 'less than two weeks'
MONTREAL - Quebec's public health director says a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant should be available in less than two weeks. Dr. Luc B...
Aug 24, 2022
More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his department is going on a hiring spree to bring 1,250 new employees on board by the end of the fall to tackle massive backlogs in processing applicati...
Aug 24, 2022
Belarus' Azarenka dropped from Ukraine exhibition at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) - Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. Azarenka is...
Aug 24, 2022
