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Tory leader Scheer contradicted on abortion by Quebec lieutenant Alain Rayes
OTTAWA - Even though he has contradicted his leader publicly on the subject of abortion rights, the Conservatives' Quebec lieutenant says he and party leader Andrew Scheer have always been clear ...
Aug 27, 2019
TV viewership down, social media up for VMSs
NEW YORK - If Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott and a 1990s rap reunion couldn't halt the shrinkage of MTV's television audience for its Video Music Awards, perhaps nothing can. Monday's show was seen by 4....
Aug 27, 2019
Stars' Seguin has high expectations in Big D, will miss 'hockey nerd' Spezza
TORONTO - Tyler Seguin got comfortable having Jason Spezza as his sounding board. Teammates the last five seasons with the Dallas Stars, the centres with an age gap of more than 8 1/2 years would...
Aug 27, 2019
Agriculture could add $11B a year to Canada's GDP by 2030
SASKATOON -- A new report says Canada's agriculture industry could add $11 billion annually to gross domestic product by 2030 if government invests in people and technology.A report from RBC says the ...
Aug 27, 2019 Grain Truck - credit Glen Miller
Hong Kong activists barred from Pride march after alleged pro-communist threats
MONTREAL - Activists supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong say they were disinvited from marching in Montreal's Pride parade this month after supporters of China's com...
Aug 27, 2019
Majority of Alberta opioid overdoses related to fentanyl poisoning
EDMONTON -- A new report says more than 4,300 drug overdoses have been reversed with a 100-per-cent success rate through the province's supervised consumption sites.The report from the Alberta Communi...
Aug 27, 2019 Opioid refuse -- LLN
Jin Young Ko wins CP Women's Open, Canada's Brooke Henderson seven shots back
AURORA, Ont. - World No. 1 Jin Young Ko wasn't going to walk up to the 18th green without Brooke Henderson. The runaway winner of the CP Women's Open, Ko called for her groupmate to join her and the t...
Aug 27, 2019
Oklahoma opioid ruling could pressure pharma companies to settle in B.C.: expert
VANCOUVER - An expert in medicine and law says an Oklahoma court ruling that found Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the opioid crisis and ordered the company to pay US$572 million will indi...
Aug 27, 2019
Doctors disagree on cause of Ezekiel Stephan's death
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Dr. Anny Sauvigeau returned to the stand Tuesday to continue her testimony into the death of the 19-month-old in March of 2012.At the time, she was the Chief Medical Examiner with Alb...
Aug 27, 2019 David (right) and Collet (left) Stephan. (Lethbridge News Now)
Billboard company 'appalled' no one taking ownership of Bernier ads
OTTAWA - The owner of the billboards that featured ads promoting Maxime Bernier's stance on immigration says they would have stayed up had the third-party group that paid for them not left h...
Aug 27, 2019