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New York City, Long Island under state of emergency due to torrential rainfall

Friday, September 29, 2023 12:14:38 PM
A rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport. New York City and other parts of the state were under a state...

Ottawa poised to make decision on search of Manitoba landfill for human remains: minister

Friday, September 29, 2023 11:14:53 AM
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree said the federal government is on the verge of presenting a solution to calls for a search at the Prairie Green Landfill in Manitoba to find the remains of two First Nations women believed to...

1st day of school for 6 Ukrainian hockey players in Quebec City

Friday, September 29, 2023 10:27:54 AM
Six young Ukrainian athletes captured the hearts of Canadians at the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament in February had their first day at Saint-Patrick's High School in Quebec City Friday.

Airlines claim passenger safety at risk under new passenger rights rules

Friday, September 29, 2023 10:07:26 AM
In submissions and meetings, industry groups warned Canada's transport regulator that sweeping reforms announced earlier this year will put travellers' safety at risk and drain carriers of cash after a financially devastating COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. federal government shutdown appears likely as Republicans reject McCarthy's plan

Friday, September 29, 2023 9:51:54 AM
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.

Witness to Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing indicted in Las Vegas

Friday, September 29, 2023 9:23:04 AM
One of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur was charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon on Friday in the 1996 killing, a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated investigators and...

Rugby Canada looking to expand blue card concussion protocol across Canada

Friday, September 29, 2023 7:46:23 AM
The blue card program has been piloted in rugby games in Ontario for the past three years, with match officials handing the card to a player who’s showing signs or symptoms of a concussion.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at 90

Friday, September 29, 2023 7:14:56 AM
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992, has died. She was 90.

Strikes at 2 more U.S. auto factories to start Friday as UAW ratchets up pressure

Friday, September 29, 2023 6:56:22 AM
The United Auto Workers union is expanding its strike against U.S. automakers to two new plants, as 7,000 workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Mich., will walk off the job at midday on Friday.

'The day that he deserved': Calgary law student called to the bar six years after his death

Friday, September 29, 2023 6:53:11 AM
A former University of Calgary law student is being recognized by the Law Society of Alberta — six years after he died from an aggressive form of brain cancer.