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Tax credits or cash? Parties spar over what is best for parental benefits
OTTAWA - Is it better to be paid in credit or with cash? That's a question Liberals and Conservatives tusseled over Tuesday in the ongoing federal election competition for the votes of middle-cla...
Sep 19, 2019
Progress reported in contract talks between GM, union
DETROIT - Faced with weakening sales, a deteriorating global economy and an unpredictable trade war, General Motors and striking auto workers appeared to be making progress Tuesday toward a four-year ...
Sep 19, 2019
US keeps top spot in FIBA men's world rankings; Spain No. 2
USA Basketball has kept its No. 1 spot in the FIBA world men's rankings, even after a disappointing seventh-place showing in the World Cup that ended earlier this week. It's now nine-years-and-countin...
Sep 19, 2019
Trump says gun negotiations going 'very slowly'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pouring cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as his aides circulate a draft plan on Capitol Hill. Trump tells Fox News in...
Sep 19, 2019
Stats Canada: Alberta to lead population growth in coming decades
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Statistics Canada has released its projections on the Country's population over the next 50 years as well as where they think each province or territory would be by then.By 2068, they...
Sep 19, 2019 The view of downtown Lethbridge from the top of the Melcor Centre. (Lethbridge News Now)
Renzi splits Italy's Democrats, shaking govt coalition
ROME - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ...
Sep 19, 2019
Bus crashes carrying country singer Josh Turner's road crew
SHANDON, Calif. - Authorities in central California say a passenger bus has crashed while carrying the road crew for country and gospel singer Josh Turner, leaving one dead and seven injured. Turner a...
Sep 19, 2019
Trudeau's 2001 'brown face' and moving Beyond Meat; In-The-News for Sept. 19
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 19. What we are watching ...
Sep 19, 2019
Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line
PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after h...
Sep 19, 2019
New poll highlights why affordability is 2019 federal campaign buzzword
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests nearly 40 per cent of Canadians are having trouble getting by or going into debt to do so, and a further 26 per cent say they've got to scrimp and save to make ends meet.&...
Sep 19, 2019