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Rouhani: US should end its policy of 'maximum pressure'
NEW YORK - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the United States on Thursday to "cease this policy of maximum pressure" in favour of "dialogue, and logic and reason." Rouhani's comments came one da...
Sep 26, 2019
UK brings travellers home as Thomas Cook bosses criticized
LONDON - Britain's biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay that Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator's collapse...
Sep 26, 2019
Kevin O'Leary's wife charged in boat crash that left two dead, three injured
The wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary and an American man have been charged in connection with a boat crash that left two people dead and three others injured. Ontario Provincial P...
Sep 26, 2019
Ousted candidate Guillet claims Liberals have double standard over past conduct
MONTREAL - A Liberal candidate in Montreal ousted over alleged anti-Semitic comments said Tuesday there is a double standard in the party when it comes to judging what is acceptable past con...
Sep 26, 2019
Update: Cause of power outage determined
Update 4 p.m.It took several hours, but BC Hydro says everyone who lost power this morning, should be back on by now.The outage was caused by a fault that caught a power pole on fire near the DND Thur...
Sep 26, 2019
Supreme Court to hear if sex-offender registries unfair to mentally ill
TORONTO - The Supreme Court of Canada will have final say on the validity of laws requiring sex offenders to register when an accused is granted an absolute discharge after being found not criminally ...
Sep 26, 2019
Ontario shipyard withdraws complaint alleging federal favouritism toward Davie
OTTAWA - An Ontario shipyard has dropped a request for an investigation into whether the federal government tried to rig its plan to add a third yard to its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding strategy i...
Sep 26, 2019
Federal judge grants B.C. injunction against Alberta's turn-off-the-taps law
CALGARY - A Federal Court judge has granted the British Columbia government a temporary injunction against an Alberta law that could have limited oil exports to other provinces. In a decision rel...
Sep 26, 2019
UNB player's 1966 punt finally recognized as longest in U Sports history
FREDERICTON - A new record for the longest punt in Canadian university football history - 114 yards - has now been recognized more than half a century after it occurred. The kick, by Thomas Pinckard o...
Sep 26, 2019
Quebec human rights commission asks government to take hate, racism seriously
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission is calling on the provincial government to come up with a plan to fight racism and discrimination in the wake of a new report on abuse against min...
Sep 26, 2019

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