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Boeing and NASA complete the first flight test of the Starliner space station

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Unmanned flight paves the way for crew missions Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at the White Sands Missile Range spacecraft on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s orbital-2 flight test (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second unmanned flight test on the International Space Station as part of NASA’s commercial crew program. The OFT-2 serves as …

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Police are investigating an alleged hate incident involving a gunman at a Jewish school

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Joanna Lavoie, CP24.com Posted Friday, 27 May 2022 16:21 EDT Last Updated on Friday, 27 May 2022 18:01 EDT A 21-year-old Toronto man faces a series of charges following an alleged hate-motivated incident at a Jewish school in North York. The incident, which Toronto police say appears to be isolated, happened Wednesday in Toronto’s Yeshiva …

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Western Prime Ministers Demand “Sustainable” Funding for Federal Government Health Care at Regina Meeting

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Western Canadian prime ministers meet in Regina on Friday to demand “sustainable” funding for health care from the federal government. The annual meeting of provincial and territorial leaders from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon was virtual in 2021. On Friday morning, Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe and British Columbia …

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Aggressive coyotes quickly close Fish Creek Provincial Park section in southeast Calgary

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A section of Fish Creek Provincial Park in southeastern Calgary has been closed to the public following reports of aggressive coyotes attacking a person and a dog. The closure extends from Parkside Green to Parkvista Crescent SE to the east bank of Fish Creek itself, according to a notice on the Alberta Parks website. All …

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Alberta man later accused US authorities of finding 650 kg of methamphetamine on a ship bound for British Columbia

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U.S. authorities say they stopped a small boat carrying a large load of methamphetamine after seeing it go down into the water near the Canadian border with Washington state. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers stopped the 5.5-meter Bayliner speedboat on Wednesday in the San Juan Islands, east of Victoria, on its way to …

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LGBTQ advocates fear monkeypox stigma could spread “like a virus”

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Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Health authorities are investigating more than two dozen confirmed cases of monkeypox in Canada as part of an unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease that rarely spreads outside of Africa. Twenty-five infections have been confirmed in Quebec and …

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Toronto lawyer says she is “shocked” after arrest in front of Doug Ford rally near Hamilton airport

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Hamilton police arrested and fined a Toronto lawyer for entering near a Conservative progressive campaign stop on Thursday evening, but Caryma Sa’d says she was attacked for criticizing party leader Doug Ford. Police say Ford was at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport to make a campaign stop around 5:30 p.m., when protesters showed up. …

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