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Mayor expresses condolences to families of victims of two separate NB tragedies
North Battleford Mayor Ryan Bater took the opportunity at the start of Monday's online council meeting to express his condolences to the families who lost loved ones in two separate tragedies last wee...
Jun 09, 2020
Golf event gets creative for cause
Technically, it's like no other Texas scramble tournament ever played because it will last all summer.The annual Emma Lake Golf Course Victoria Hospital Foundation (VHF) Charity Classic, presented by ...
Jun 09, 2020
More funding freed up for organizations working on food security
OTTAWA - The federal government is spending more money to help food banks and other community organizations working to increase food security. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced t...
Jun 09, 2020
B.C., Ontario shipyards team up to win multibillion-dollar icebreaker contract
OTTAWA - Canada's sharply divided shipbuilding industry was dealt a surprise this morning as two competing yards announced plans to team up to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new polar i...
Jun 09, 2020
Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab released from prison
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain was released Tuesday amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Nabeel Rajab left prison and will serve the rest of his sentence ...
Jun 09, 2020
George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, to be buried
HOUSTON - The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried in Houston Tuesday, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage. George Floyd, who was 46 when he...
Jun 09, 2020
Israeli model Bar Refaeli signs plea bargain for tax evasion
JERUSALEM - Israeli top model Bar Refaeli signed a plea bargain agreement with authorities on Tuesday to settle a long-standing tax evasion case against her and her family. The deal will require Refae...
Jun 09, 2020
Still beside the queen at 99: Prince Philip to mark birthday
LONDON - There certainly won't be fuss. Count on that. When Britain's Prince Philip reaches the grand age of 99 on Wednesday, he will spend it quietly and in much the same way he's spent most of his a...
Jun 09, 2020
Salzburg Festival will go on this year but in shortened form
The Salzburg Festival will be one of classical music's few offerings in the summer of the coronavirus pandemic, staging a reduced 100th anniversary celebration with capacities limited to about 50%. Eu...
Jun 09, 2020
Floyd mourned and U.S. not investigating Prince Andrew; In The News for June 9
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 June 9 ... --- C...
Jun 09, 2020