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'Rips your heart out:' Two men learn they were switched at birth in Manitoba hospital

Edward Ambrose remembers wanting to be just like his father — a mentor, a hard worker, a proud family man. More than sixty years later, Ambrose would receive shocking news. That man was not his father.

Feb 14, 2023 7:23 AM Read more >

Turpel-Lafond stripped of honorary degree over claims of Indigenous heritage

REGINA — The University of Regina says it has rescinded the honorary doctor of laws degree it awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in 2003 as she faces questions about her Indigenous heritage.

Feb 14, 2023 6:39 AM Read more >

In The News for Feb. 14: Gun control group looks to convince MPs about disinformation

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 Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

Feb 14, 2023 1:15 AM Read more >

Totem at Royal B.C. Museum on way home to Central Coast after repatriation ceremony

VICTORIA — Drummers and dancers helped reawaken the spirit of a totem pole Monday in preparation for a lengthy repatriation journey to its ancestral home more than 100 years after it was taken from a British Columbia First Nation.

Feb 13, 2023 5:24 PM Read more >

Ottawa moves to acquire land for Lac-Megantic rail bypass, 10 years after disaster

OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to acquire land so that it can build a rail bypass in Lac-Megantic, Que., nearly 10 years after a downtown freight train derailment killed 47 people.

Feb 13, 2023 4:34 PM Read more >

B.C. park site of Chinese-style matchmaking, as parents seek wedded bliss for kids

BURNABY, B.C. — In a corner of a park in Metro Vancouver, the hunt for marital bliss is on.

Feb 13, 2023 3:45 PM Read more >

Russian ambassador claims Canada a 'very dangerous country' to visit

OTTAWA — Russia's ambassador in Ottawa claims Canada is unsafe for his compatriots to visit. "Canada today is a very dangerous country for Russian citizens," Oleg Stepanov said in a Russian-language interview last Friday.

Feb 13, 2023 3:07 PM Read more >

Premiers agree to accept new federal health-care funding offer

OTTAWA — Canada's premiers will formally accept an offer from the federal government for billions in additional health-care funding, but say they will also insist the money continue to flow for more than 10 years.

Feb 13, 2023 2:56 PM Read more >

Investigation underway into apparent gas explosion that injured 10 adults, two kids

OTTAWA — Officials say the investigation is now ongoing after 12 people were injured in an apparent gas explosion that rocked an east Ottawa suburb on Monday morning, including two children and two people who were pulled out of the rubble.