Hospitalizations decline, but New Brunswick reports another COVID-19 death
FREDERICTON — Hospitalizations linked to COVID-19 continue to decline in New Brunswick as health officials announced another person has died from the disease. The latest death involves a person in their 80s in the Edmundston region in the northwest of...
Notable opinions by high court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be nominated for the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on Friday, worked for seven years as a judge on the federal trial court in Washington, D.C., before Biden appointed her
Rioter carrying Pelosi’s podium in viral photo gets prison
A Florida man who grabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium and posed for photographs with it during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Friday to more than two months in prison.
Ottawa anti-government convoy organizer Pat King denied bail
OTTAWA — A prominent organizer of the three-week convoy protest outside Parliament Hill that snarled traffic, shuttered businesses and plagued residents with near-constant honking has been denied bail. Pat King was arrested last Friday and faces charg...
Top Kansas school official suspended over offensive remark
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ school board suspended the state’s top public school administrator Friday over an offensive public comment about Native Americans, rejecting the resignation he submitted after the governor and indigenous leaders demanded it....
Canadian liquor stores pull Russian products amid conflict in Ukraine
TORONTO — Crown liquor stores in several Canadian provinces were pulling Russian products from their shelves Friday in light of Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. In Ontario, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said he was directing the Liquor...
Canada sanctions Putin, but Ukraine calls for no-fly zone against Russian bombardment
OTTAWA — As the Trudeau government trumpeted new sanctions against Russia's Vladimir Putin, desperate pleas from Ukrainian lawmakers for a no-fly zone to protect their civilians from Russian bombs went unanswered Friday by Canada and its NATO allies. P...
Report: Feds should create guidelines on less-lethal weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government should study how police use less-lethal weapons, like tear gas and bean-bag guns, and offer guidance to law enforcement agencies across the U.S. because officers are often left with little information beyond the...
EXPLAINER: What does Ukraine invasion mean for energy bills?
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Even as gunfire sounded in Ukraine's capital, natural gas kept flowing normally Friday through the major pipelines from Russia to Europe. But the invasion and accompanying sanctions are casting a shadow over longstanding energ...
Federal government posts $70.1B deficit for April-to-December period
OTTAWA — The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $70.1 billion for the April-to-December period of its 2021-22 fiscal year. In its monthly fiscal monitor report, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $248.2 bill...
