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Trump doubles down on debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is still promoting a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House security adviser called it a "fiction...
Nov 22, 2019
Province looking to join class action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers
EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government has tabled new legislation that would allow it to participate in a class action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers.The Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs R...
Nov 22, 2019 Fentanyl - Canadian Press file photo
Trump directed Ukraine quid pro quo, key witness says
WASHINGTON - Ambassador Gordon Sondland declared to impeachment investigators Wednesday that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine, levera...
Nov 22, 2019
FBI lawyer investigated over altered Russia probe document
WASHINGTON - A former FBI lawyer is being investigated for allegedly altering a document related to surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser in 2016. That's according to a person familiar with the cas...
Nov 22, 2019
Lethbridge's Tevi Legge named "Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - "I still haven't come to the realization that it's happened. I think you see some of the names that've been honoured in the past and I see myself as a regular person and I don't see m...
Nov 22, 2019 Tevi Legge. (Supplied by @TeviLegge on Twitter)
TV comedy greats take a bow, make ’em laugh at ceremony
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "There's nothing I believe more than this, that laughter adds time to one's life," Norman Lear told an audience gathered to honour him and other four other television comedy gr...
Nov 22, 2019
In reversal, Seoul to keep Japan military intelligence pact
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - In a major policy reversal, South Korea said Friday it has decided to continue a 2016 military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan that it previously said it would te...
Nov 22, 2019
Trudeau builds a cabinet and hockey stops using 'midget'; In-The-News Nov. 20
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 20. What we are watching i...
Nov 22, 2019
Trudeau unveils new cabinet aimed at pushing priorities, soothing tensions
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau unveiled a larger cabinet on Wednesday that aims to advance Liberal campaign promises to tackle climate change and promote middle-class prosperity...
Nov 22, 2019
Study finds microplastics in all remote Arctic beluga whales tested
VANCOUVER - A pioneering study of seven belugas in Canada's remote Arctic waters has found microplastics in the innards of every single whale. Researchers from Ocean Wise worked with hunters...
Nov 22, 2019