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Jimmy Kimmel named honourary mayor of Dildo, N.L., promises to visit community
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - After weeks broadcasting his passion for Dildo, N.L., late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was named "honourary mayor" Thursday night and made a commitment to visit the commun...
Aug 18, 2019
Prime Minister announces advisory committee aimed at promoting skilled trades
HALIFAX - A new advisory committee will help promote apprenticeships and skilled trades across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Trudeau made the announcement prior to a roundtab...
Aug 18, 2019
Advocates 'internationalize' the fight to free Raif Badawi from Saudi prison
MONTREAL - More than seven years after Raif Badawi was thrown in prison, lawyers and allies of the Saudi blogger are increasingly lobbying foreign governments in an effort to secur...
Aug 18, 2019
Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk wins World Triathlon Olympic test event
TOKYO - Tyler Mislawchuk became the first Canadian man to win a World Triathlon Series race when he claimed gold in an Olympic test event on Friday. The 23-year-old from Oak Bluff, Man....
Aug 18, 2019
Police make arrest, Canadian 'shocked' after fiance's murder in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand police have charged a man with murder after a tourist was killed in a seemingly random attack on a van that sparked a large manhunt after the victim's Canadi...
Aug 18, 2019
Andrew Scheer calls on Liberal MPs to further probe SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion says he's willing to testify about his scathing report on Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair - if he's invited to do so by the ...
Aug 18, 2019
Police seek to question man in NYC rice cooker bomb scare
NEW YORK - Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection in another part of town Friday morning ...
Aug 18, 2019
Gibraltar rejects US pressure to hold Iranian oil tanker
MADRID - Authorities in Gibraltar say they are rejecting the United States' renewed request that the British overseas territory not release an Iranian supertanker. The vessel has been detained for ove...
Aug 18, 2019
French police suicide rate climbs, French govt is flummoxed
PARIS - Three riot police officers, a police commander, a police academy teacher - all are among eight French police officers who have killed themselves recently. That makes 64 so far this year - and ...
Aug 18, 2019
Portland 'ground zero' for protests between right, left-wing
PORTLAND, Ore. - Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday for a long-hyped rally that attracted President Donald Trump's a...
Aug 18, 2019