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In pre-budget letter, Hajdu asks Ontario to reverse student-loan changes
OTTAWA - The federal labour minister is asking the Ontario government to reverse changes to its provincial student-assistance program in a letter that serves as a pre-budget salvo against Premier...
Apr 12, 2019
St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington addresses teenage tweets
WINNIPEG - St. Louis Blues rookie goalie Jordan Binnington says he has grown up since teenage tweets about women in burkas and cab drivers who speak different languages. The tweets, from 2013 and 2014...
Apr 12, 2019
Most Fed officials see rates staying on hold for all of 2019
WASHINGTON - A majority of Federal Reserve officials last month believed that economic conditions would likely warrant keeping the Fed's benchmark policy unchanged for the rest of this year. Several o...
Apr 12, 2019
Guess who's moving?Burton Cummings complained of noise from dance studio
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A Saskatchewan fitness studio is moving after multiple noise complaints from Canadian rock legend Burton Cummings. Kyra Klassen, who owns Dance Fitness with Kyra in downtown Mo...
Apr 12, 2019
Opioid overdoses claimed more than 3,200 lives in first nine months of 2018
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has released new data showing that 3,286 Canadians died after apparent opioid-related overdoses between January and September last year. The data also ...
Apr 12, 2019
Amid scandal, audit ordered into Baltimore non-profit's work
Baltimore's acting leader has ordered an audit of a non-profit's management of a $12 million city youth fund after it was tied to distribution of the embattled mayor's children's books. The audit of A...
Apr 12, 2019
Montreal offers to help find new homes for carriage horses as industry ends
MONTREAL - The City of Montreal plans to work with the owners of retiring caleche horses to offer the animals a chance to live out their days in the country once the industry is&nb...
Apr 12, 2019
Thieves make off with popular tourist attraction from Peggy's Cove
PEGGY'S COVE, N.S. - One of the most-photographed Nova Scotians is missing. Shorty, a wide-eyed, five-foot-two wooden fisherman, was stolen from outside a tourist spot in Peggy's Cove, N.S.,...
Apr 12, 2019
Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby undergoes emergency appendectomy
Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby has undergone an emergency appendectomy after being diagnosed with acute appendicitis. The Raptors said the surgery, performed Thursday evening a...
Apr 12, 2019
Laval defensive lineman Mathieu Betts named top CFL draft prospect
TORONTO - Laval Rouge et Or defensive lineman Mathieu Betts has held onto the No. 1 spot in the CFL's Scouting Bureau's final rankings for the 2019 draft. The Montreal native helped the Rouge et Or wi...
Apr 12, 2019