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Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion
NEW YORK - Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Bjork and Lady Gaga. What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp - the esthetic that's being celebrated in the new fashion mega...
May 06, 2019
Ottawa's planned fighter competition incompatible with F-35 obligations: U.S.
OTTAWA - U.S. officials have warned the Trudeau government that its plan to hold an open competition to replace its aging CF-18s is incompatible with Canada's obligations as a member of the F-35 steal...
May 06, 2019
Olympic trampoline champion Rosannagh MacLennan breaks her ankle
Two-time Olympic trampoline champion Rosannagh MacLennan is recovering from a broken ankle she suffered recently at a World Cup in Belarus. MacLennan told The Canadian Press she landed awkwardly on th...
May 06, 2019
Russian forward Ilya Mikheyev signs with Toronto Maple Leafs
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed Russian forward Ilya Mikheyev to a one-year entry level contract. The 24-year-old had 23 goals and 22 assists in 62 games for Avangard Omsk of the Kontine...
May 06, 2019
Crisis line urgently needed for victims of coerced sterilization: senator
OTTAWA - An Ontario senator is calling on the federal government to fund a crisis line for victims of coerced and forced sterilization to ensure traumatized women can access assistance. Yvon...
May 06, 2019
Man accused of killing Manitoba woman testifies she came at him with knife
WINNIPEG - A man accused of killing an Indigenous woman in Manitoba says he blacked out before realizing she was dead on his basement floor. Brett Overby, who is 32, has pleaded not guilty to second-d...
May 06, 2019
Quebec officials remain on flooding alert, keeping tabs on weather
MONTREAL - Water levels remained high but the flooding situation was largely stable in Quebec on Saturday with officials keeping close tabs on the weather in the coming days. Quebe...
May 06, 2019
Regina police pilot program will allow experts to review sex assault cases
REGINA - The Regina Police Service is the latest agency in Canada to pilot a program that allows sexual assault cases to be reviewed by outside experts. The service says it will be trying the program ...
May 06, 2019
Boy's song inspires Francois Legault to rebuild flooded school in Beauce
MONTREAL - A municipality in Quebec's Beauce region will be getting a new elementary school after a student's song about its sorry state drew the attention of Premier Francois Legault. Legault said to...
May 06, 2019
Former Liberal MP Darshan Kang apologizes for behaviour, maintains no ill intent
OTTAWA - A former Liberal MP who was found by his peers to have sexually harassed a member of his office staff is apologizing to the victim for any of his problematic conduct. But reading from a ...
May 06, 2019