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UNB prof under fire for immigration views to retire, school says
FREDERICTON - A University of New Brunswick professor denounced by colleagues for promoting what they say are racist arguments about immigration has agreed to retire. The school announced Tuesday that...
Jun 06, 2019
Feds have failed to explain 'inaction' in Grassy Narrows: UN rapporteur
OTTAWA - A United Nations human-rights expert says the case of a northern Ontario First Nation plagued by mercury contamination is "emblematic" of an overall pattern of inaction in the face of grave r...
Jun 06, 2019
Scheer vows internal free-trade deal as part of vision for stronger federation
OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada's provinces. The Conservative leader made the commitment Tuesday...
Jun 06, 2019
Freedoms, lives lost and those still with us honoured at 75th D-Day anniversary ceremony
LETHBRIDGE, AB - In Lethbridge and around the world, people turned out for ceremonies honouring the 75th anniversary of D-Day.The Normandy landings were the operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, of the...
Jun 06, 2019 Some of the veterans and other dignitaries on hand for the ceremony
Policing community eyes change after missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry
OTTAWA - Melanie Morrison says her sister went missing in June 2006 - a unusual disappearance because she was a young mother. She says when their mom went to police, her sister was presumed to be "out...
Jun 06, 2019
Leaders of white supremacist prison gang charged in killings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were charged Thursday with directing killings and drug smuggling from within California's most secure prisons, U.S. prosecutors said. ...
Jun 06, 2019
Trudeau pushes ratification of new NAFTA despite U.S. tariff threat on Mexico
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is moving forward with ratifying the new North American trade deal despite fresh tensions between Mexico and the United States. He says Canada i...
Jun 06, 2019
Toronto Wolfpack forward Darcy Lussick barred entry by British customs
TORONTO - The complexities of being a transatlantic rugby league team were highlighted this week with British border officials refusing entry to Toronto Wolfpack forward Darcy Lussick. The 29-year-old...
Jun 06, 2019
China wants to fix 'serious difficulties' with Canada by meeting halfway: envoy
OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada says his government wants to end the countries' impasse but won't give way on two of Canada's major complaints. "Indeed, the bilateral relatio...
Jun 06, 2019
Philippines lifts Canadian travel ban but no return of ambassador yet
OTTAWA - The Philippines is slowly normalizing diplomatic relations with Canada now that the trash tiff of 2019 has come to a close. Philippine executive secretary Salvador Medialdea issued a memo to ...
Jun 06, 2019