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NDP expects phased-in approach to national pharmacare promise in deal with Liberals
OTTAWA - NDP health critic Don Davies says he expects the Liberal government to make good its renewed promise to deliver national pharmacare, but perhaps not all at once. The Liberals have promised in...
Mar 23, 2022

Canadian running back Moore rejoins B.C. Lions
VANCOUVER - Canadian running back Wayne Moore is back with the B.C. Lions. Moore, 30, retired from football before the start of training camp last year after being involved in a car accident. The Lion...
Mar 23, 2022

Witness: Whitmer kidnapping aimed at stopping Biden win
A man who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has told jurors that he and his allies wanted to act before the 2020 election to prevent Joe Biden from winning the ...
Mar 23, 2022

Salt marsh option missing in plan to shield N.S.-N.B. land link from floods: experts
HALIFAX - An engineering study calling for higher dikes to safeguard the land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should have also suggested creating natural buffers to absorb rising oceans, so...
Mar 23, 2022

Kaillie Humphries' legal battle with Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton subject of documentary
In her golden moment atop the medal podium in Beijing, as the U.S. flag was raised, Kaillie Humphries says a couple of Canadian team executives turned their back. Humphries had just become the first w...
Mar 23, 2022

Canada, U.S. enter talks on deal to access, share data in criminal investigations
WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States have started talking about ways to make it easier for law enforcement officials in either country to navigate stringent privacy laws when investigating crimin...
Mar 23, 2022

6 students killed in Oklahoma crash were in car that seats 4
TISHOMINGO, Okla. (AP) - Six teenage students killed in a collision with a semi were riding in a small car with only four seats, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday. Only the 16-year-old car's ...
Mar 23, 2022

Defending her record, Jackson back for 3rd day of hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is returning to the Senate for a third day of hearings as Republicans try to paint her as soft on crime and Democrats herald the historic ...
Mar 23, 2022

Trump rescinds Brooks endorsement in Alabama US Senate race
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama's U.S. Senate race in a major blow to the congressman's campaign. In a stateme...
Mar 23, 2022

Thoughts on Liberal-NDP deal, Trudeau in Brussels: In The News for March 23
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 23 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Mar 23, 2022

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