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[published_date] Felix Auger-Aliassime is into the semifinals of the U.S. Open, exactly four years after the first and only time the 25-year-old Canadian had reached the final four at a Grand Slam tournament. Seeded 25th, Auger-Aliassime upset No. 8 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) in Wednesday's quarterfinal to…

[published_date] The Public Health Agency of Canada is cutting roughly 10 per cent of its employees as it continues to shrink its workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. "As part of PHAC's post-pandemic recalibration and ongoing efforts to adjust to new salary allocations, the agency must focus resources on government-funded priorities. This means…

[published_date] Two 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy organizations are launching a court challenge against the Alberta government's name and pronoun restrictions, which came into effect in the province's schools this week. Egale Canada and Alberta's Skipping Stone Foundation are seeking a judge's order declaring sections of Alberta's Education Amendment Act (or Bill 27) related to pronouns and gender-related name…

[published_date] The Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner says it's being overwhelmed by its workload and that eliminating the backlog of files would require more analysts and lawyers. The office investigates complaints from public servants who believe they have evidence of wrongdoing, or who have suffered reprisals for coming forward or participating in an…

[published_date] Montreal pop singer Charlotte Cardin won Billboard Canada's inaugural Woman of the Year Award in 2024, and she has just announced Toronto rock band the Beaches as this year's winner. While Billboard has held its Women in Music event annually since 2007, Billboard Canada launched its Toronto event last year and honourees included Alanis Morissette, Jully…

[published_date] RCMP officers have arrested Romana Didulo, the leader of a cult that has been living in a Saskatchewan village for two years, according to a livestream posted by Didulo on Wednesday morning. The video, shared to Didulo's followers on Telegram at 5:51 a.m. CST on Wednesday, shows two officers wearing tactical gear burst into a room…

[published_date] WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of a child's death.  A coroner looking into the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby, Que., has concluded that the youth protection system as well as the school and health-care networks failed to protect her and by working in silos, everyone involved was ''forgetting the most important person.''…

[published_date] A break-in at a jewelry store in Cape Breton was caught on camera recently. But it's not the robbery that has people talking — it's what was used to ward off the intruders. The CBC's Kyle Moore reports. Source link

[published_date] Chris Jones is in Bucharest with Canada's men's soccer team ahead of Friday's game vs. Romania as it continues preparations for next year's FIFA World Cup. Derek Cornelius knew he was in Bucharest. How he got there, exactly, took some remembering. The end of Europe's summer transfer period ran hard against the opening of FIFA's September window for…

[published_date] A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shakeup of Google's search engine in an attempt to curb the power of an illegal monopoly, but spared it from orders to break up the company and other restraints. The 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., will likely ripple across the technological landscape…

[published_date] The mayor of Halifax is being investigated for possibly breaking the city's code of conduct, after an independent consultant decided complaints he had misled the public about governance at city hall had merit. On July 22, Mayor Andy Fillmore told CBC's Maritime Noon he would welcome so-called "strong mayor powers" if granted by the province. Fillmore…

[published_date] Kevin Costner on Tuesday remembered Canadian actor Graham Greene as a "master at work and a wonderful human being," in a social media post depicting one of their scenes together in 1990's Dances With Wolves. Greene, the Oneida actor from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, died on Monday at the age of 73, his manager…