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Canadians cash in on hobbies with 'side hustles' as COVID-19 crisis cuts jobs
November 17, 2020 - 9:00 PM

TORONTO - For Chelsea Hearty and Ian Moores, the recipe for success began with a midnight snack.
Liberals face probe into pandemic response after losing House vote
October 26, 2020 - 6:00 PM

OTTAWA - Opposition parties won their bid Monday to launch a probe of the Liberals' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic following a week of parliamentary turbulence over how to review their management of the crisis.
Vernon and Kelowna make top 20 list of 'rattiest' cities in B.C.
September 09, 2020 - 9:50 AM

Two Okanagan cities have made a rather infamous provincewide list.
iN VIDEO: Dixie Chicks drop 'dixie' from name, now known as The Chicks
June 25, 2020 - 11:30 AM

NASHVILLE - Grammy-winning country group The Dixie Chicks have dropped the word Dixie from their name, now going by The Chicks.
Trump allows commercial fishing in marine conservation area
June 06, 2020 - 4:00 PM

BANGOR, Maine - President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area off the New England coast, signing an order to allow commercial fishing in a stretch of water environmentalists say is critical for endangered right whales and other fragile marine life.
US cities gird for more violence as Trump decries 'lowlifes'
June 02, 2020 - 7:30 PM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on governors to quell the violence set off by the death of George Floyd, demanding New York call up the National Guard to stop the “lowlifes and losers.”
Food trucks are being set up at provincially-owned locations to support commercial truckers
April 28, 2020 - 8:41 AM

Truckers who have struggled to get a meal since COVID-19 swept across the globe and shuttered businesses and kicked into gear heightened hygiene practices are getting a government reprieve.
Mandatory quarantines in effect for returning travellers, Freeland says
March 25, 2020 - 8:03 PM

WASHINGTON - With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating in the United States, the federal government lowered the boom Wednesday on renegade globetrotters, ordering any non-essential travellers who recently returned to Canada to self-quarantine for 14 days, regardless of whether they have symptoms.
Hurricane watch in parts of Atlantic Canada as Dorian moves up U.S. east coast
September 06, 2019 - 1:00 PM

HALIFAX - Hurricane Dorian was on a northeast track off the U.S. east coast Friday as people in Atlantic Canada braced for the massive storm's arrival.
Audio shows UK navy trying to thwart Iran from seizing ship
July 21, 2019 - 11:36 AM

LONDON - In an audio recording released Sunday, a British naval officer insists that a British-flagged oil tanker must be allowed to sail through the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian paramilitary forces demand that the vessel change course before commandeering it.
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