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B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods

HOPE, B.C. — A stretch along a key highway that sustained severe damage from landslides and flooding across southwestern British Columbia last year is back to four lanes after temporary repairs at three bridge sites.

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Crown tasked with rare case of no body and no identity in alleged serial killer case

WINNIPEG — More than two weeks have passed since police laid additional murder charges against an alleged serial killer, including one for the killing of an unidentified woman whose remains have not been found.

Dec 16, 2022 4:07 PM Read more >

Experts say delay of assisted-dying expansion not necessary, as some cheer decision

OTTAWA — The chair of a federal expert panel on medically assisted death is questioning what the Liberal government is hoping to accomplish by delaying the expansion of the assisted-dying regime. "I don't think it's necessary," Dr.

Dec 16, 2022 3:53 PM Read more >

Alberta wraps up fall legislature sitting dominated by controversial sovereignty act

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition NDP says the first sitting under Premier Danielle Smith was a short, chaotic mess with the passage of a sovereignty act that dooms the province to confusion over who follows which laws.

Dec 16, 2022 3:52 PM Read more >

Nature finance impasse deepens between developed, developing countries at COP15

MONTREAL — The Canadian government is promising another $255 million in nature conservation financing for developing countries as the impasse over funding at the COP15 nature talks in Montreal drags into the final weekend of negotiations.

Dec 16, 2022 3:36 PM Read more >

Montreal public health says two children have died from strep A infections

Montreal public health officials say two children have died from strep A amid an uptick in infections across the city. Health authorities have reported four cases in the city as of Dec. 15 and the deaths of two children aged two years or younger.

Dec 16, 2022 3:20 PM Read more >

Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services

DELTA, B.C. — What started as a probe into some oddities with shipping pallets in Vancouver has ended with a record seizure of opium by the Canada Border Services Agency.

Dec 16, 2022 3:01 PM Read more >

'If all else fails, we will blockade': Chiefs call for Sask. bill to be scrapped

SASKATOON — Chiefs in Saskatchewan sent a message to the provincial government to scrap a controversial bill or the new year could start with blockades.

Dec 16, 2022 2:45 PM Read more >

Progress on Indigenous reconciliation calls to action going at 'glacial pace': report

TORONTO — An Indigenous-led think tank says progress is moving at a “glacial pace" seven years after the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was released.

Dec 16, 2022 1:50 PM Read more >

Ottawa mayor, local businesses welcome expected return of federal workers to offices

OTTAWA — A coffee shop in Ottawa's downtown core is looking forward to some more frequent foot traffic once federal workers head back to the office on a more regular basis.

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