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Liberals complain to elections commissioner about groups' co-ordination
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are asking the elections commissioner to look into what they allege is possible improper co-ordination between two conservative pressure groups. The party says in a ...
Jul 26, 2019
Withering Vancouver Whitecaps look to end 'nightmare' losing skid on road trip
VANCOUVER - Coach Marc Dos Santos calls July a "nightmare" for the Vancouver Whitecaps. Not only has the team lost every Major League Soccer game it has played this month, the club was ouste...
Jul 26, 2019
Bombers' O'Shea, Ticats' Steinauer have a long and successful past together
They've been teammates and coached together. On Friday night, Mike O'Shea and Orlondo Steinauer square off for the first time as rival CFL head coaches. The league's top two teams will meet ...
Jul 26, 2019
Evicted tenant challenges 'draconian' pot law's constitutionality
TORONTO - A man evicted from his home and whose possessions were seized has launched a legal challenge to new Ontario legislation that aims to weed out illegal cannabis sales. In an unproven applicati...
Jul 26, 2019
Man accused of killing four people in Fredericton makes another court appearance
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick man accused of murdering four people, including two police officers, in a shooting spree last August was back in a Fredericton courtroom Friday. Matthew Raymond is charge...
Jul 26, 2019
MTV announces first run of films in new documentary division
NEW YORK - Films about living in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol and a St. Louis-area activist turned politician will be the first released by MTV's new documentary division. MTV announced earlier this...
Jul 26, 2019
Trudeau names outgoing NDP MP Murray Rankin to lead new security-review agency
OTTAWA - An outgoing New Democrat MP will chair Canada's new national-security review agency, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday. Murray Rankin has been the member of Parliament for Vic...
Jul 26, 2019
Funding for Highway 3 bridge replacement subject to province's "fiscal health"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The UCP government is reviewing all of the previously-promised funding from the NDP administration, including a massive $100-million investment for the Highway 3 bridge replacement in...
Jul 26, 2019 Highway 3 through the Lethbridge coulees. (Lethbridge News Now)
Canadian government faces call to revoke funding for giant telescope in Hawaii
OTTAWA - Canada should remove its financial support from a plan to build a massive new telescope in Hawaii on land considered sacred by Indigenous Hawaiians, the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said Wedne...
Jul 26, 2019
Canadian government faces call to revoke funding for giant telescope in Hawaii
OTTAWA - Canada should remove its financial support from a plan to build a massive new telescope in Hawaii on land considered sacred by Indigenous Hawaiians, the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said Wedne...
Jul 26, 2019