OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says Veterans Affairs Canada can clear its backlog of disability benefit applications in a year if it hires nearly 400 more people.
The number of pending applications for benefits had reached almost 50,000 by the end of March, up from about 21,000 in March 2017.
LONDON - Veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough has given Britain's Prince George a giant shark tooth fossil after a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace.
TORONTO–Public health officials say the number of COVID-19 cases linked to a single wedding that took place recently in the Greater Toronto Area has grown.
The York Region Public Health Unit says 23 people have now tested positive for the virus, up from 11 earlier reported cases that have been linked to the wedding and three related gatherings.
CALGARY–Several women are expected to speak in court today about a retired Calgary neurologist who sexually assaulted them.
Keith Hoyte pleaded guilty in January to assaulting 28 female patients over three decades.
Crown prosecutor Rosalind Greenwood says about 20 victims are expected to attend Hoyte’s sentencing hearing.
ATLANTA–Rory McIlroy is the last of 30 players to arrive at the Tour Championship and couldn’t be more thrilled.
His wife gave birth to their first child.
McIlroy announced on social media that his daughter, Poppy Kennedy McIlroy, was born Monday in Florida.
“She is the absolute love of our lives,” McIlroy said.
Chadwick Boseman, an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as the Black Panther in the Marvel film Black Panther, and barrier-breaking baseball legend Jackie Robinson in the film 42, died August 28 due to colon cancer, at only 43 years old.
NEW YORK - The author and educator Kleaver Cruz has travelled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?”
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71.
LOS ANGELES - Dolly Parton, Cate Blanchett and Justin Bieber are part of the virtual edition of the Paley Center's annual festival celebrating TV programs and their makers.
PaleyFest LA, responding to pandemic restrictions, taped socially distanced discussions with stars and producers that began streaming free this week on the Paley Center's YouTube channel.
NEW YORK - There is still plenty of life in Stephenie Meyer's “Twilight Saga.”
Meyer is planning at least two more books in her mega-selling vampire series, she said during a recent promotional event. Meanwhile, the author's long-awaited “Midnight Sun” sold more than 1 million copies in its first week, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced Thursday.
