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McGill faculty groups file constitutional challenge of Quebec labour bill
MONTREAL - Four faculty groups at McGill University have launched a constitutional challenge of a Quebec bill that allows the provincial labour minister to terminate strikes. The associations, which r...
Aug 5, 2025
Dyas outlines bold vision for future of recreation in Kelowna
Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas is looking ahead to what he calls a new era for community recreation, as the city pushes forward on its most ambitious capital project to date - the $242-million redevelopment o...
Aug 5, 2025
Fisheries Department offered support to firm behind doomed Titan submersible
HALIFAX - A U.S. Coast Guard investigation into the 2023 sinking of the Titan submersible south of Newfoundland says that Canada's Fisheries Department sent a letter of support to the sub's American o...
Aug 5, 2025
Tennessee executes inmate by lethal injection without deactivating his implanted defibrillator
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemic...
Aug 5, 2025
Maple Leafs sign defenceman Villeneuve to one-year, two-way extension
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman William Villeneuve to a one-year, two-way contract extension, the NHL club announced Tuesday. The 23-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que., recorded 4...
Aug 5, 2025
Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after 1989 revolution, has died at 95
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revol...
Aug 5, 2025
Carney to visit West Kelowna business amid rising softwood lumber tensions
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in British Columbia this week and is scheduled to visit Gorman Bros. Lumber in West Kelowna on Tuesday for a forestry-related announcement.The visit follows several high-...
Aug 5, 2025
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus says parliamentary election to take place in February
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, said Tuesday that the country's parliamentary election would be held in February. In a televised addres...
Aug 5, 2025
Police arrest suspect in killings of 4 Tennessee family members
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - The man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found alone has been arrested, police in Tennessee said Tuesday. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was...
Aug 5, 2025
CF Montreal profits from Philadelphia Union transfer deal for forward Milan Iloski
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Union acquired striker Milan Iloski from Denmark's FC Nordsjlland on Tuesday in a deal that netted CF Montreal up to US$250,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars) in general...
Aug 5, 2025
