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Liberals give BlackBerry $40M to support futuristic car development
OTTAWA - BlackBerry is getting $40 million in federal funding to help develop technologies that make cars safer, more connected to cyberspace and, eventually, capable of driving themselves. The compan...
Feb 15, 2019
Canadian rinks look to defend world junior curling titles at home
LIVERPOOL, N.S. - The Scotties Tournament of Hearts isn’t the only big curling event in Nova Scotia for the next week. The Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, N.S., will be hosting the world...
Feb 15, 2019
Trump's national emergency: from shutdown frying pan to constitutional fire
WASHINGTON - With a few swipes of his Sharpie, Donald Trump assuaged America’s fears of another government shutdown Friday, but not before declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico borde...
Feb 15, 2019
Expect traffic delays as storm and sewer work begins in downtown Lethbridge next week
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The City of Lethbridge is advising residents of some infrastructure work set to start up on Monday, Feb. 18. Crews will be lining storm and sanitary sewer pipes in the downtown area a...
Feb 15, 2019
Chicago police release 2 men questioned in Smollett case
Chicago police released without charges two Nigerian brothers arrested on suspicion of assaulting “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett and said they have new evidence to investigate as a result ...
Feb 15, 2019
21 Savage 'wasn't hiding' being British, feared deportation
ATLANTA - The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn’t talk about his British citizenship before because he didn’t want to get deported. The Grammy-n...
Feb 15, 2019
Regina is already a King, but what about president?
NEW YORK - So, Regina King walked into a 99-cent store. And what’d she get? A prophecy on her life. No joke. King was shopping around - “sometimes people will say, ‘You at the 99-cen...
Feb 15, 2019
This Space Survival Kit Has Everything A Stranded Cosmonaut Needs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! While it took the engineering expertise of hundreds of engineers, scientists, and pilots to ensure that Russian cosmonauts could survive space itself, land...
Feb 15, 2019
'Trudeau is just the worst:' Manitoba teacher investigated for insulting P.M.
MIAMI, Man. - A rural Manitoba school division says it is investigating after a gym teacher posted a photo to Facebook showing him holding a sign insulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The photo was...
Feb 15, 2019
Canadians make harrowing trek to Haiti airport as Ottawa advises against travel
MONTREAL - An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti Friday to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says he feel lucky to be alive and is warning other...
Feb 15, 2019