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Gender discrimination persists in Canada's Indian Act, UN committee rules
Despite government efforts over the years to fix the situation, Canada’s Indian Act still discriminates against Indigenous women when it comes to passing on their status to their descendants, th...
Jan 17, 2019
Former Montreal Alouettes receiver Tim Maypray dies at the age of 30
Tim Maypray, who was a receiver with the Montreal Alouettes during their 2010 Grey Cup season, has died. He was 30. Virginia Military Institute, a school where Maypray played and later served as an as...
Jan 17, 2019
Canada's Georgia Simmerling returns to cycling after serious injury
CAMBRIDGE, New Zealand - Just under a year after breaking both her legs during a World Cup ski cross event, Canada’s Georgia Simmerling is set to return to the top level of another sport - cycli...
Jan 17, 2019
President escalates border battle with Democrats, cancels congressional travel
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump grounded Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders Thursday, cancelling - and disclosing - their secret military trip overseas in an apparent fit of pique over the combati...
Jan 17, 2019
Woman survives after runaway snowmobile crashes into home, lands on her
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland man says it’s a miracle his wife is alive after his runaway snowmobile crashed through the window of their home, smashing furniture and pinning her undern...
Jan 17, 2019
Quinoa seeds found at Ontario construction site date back to 900 BC: researchers
Researchers at the University of Toronto say they’ve uncovered a large quantity of quinoa seeds grown in North America thousands of years ago. They say the discovery marks the first time such se...
Jan 17, 2019
Renovations to be revealed at Saskatchewan school where shooting took place
LA LOCHE, Sask. - The mayor of a northern Saskatchewan community says there are mixed feelings as renovations to the high school are revealed three years after a deadly shooting. Four people died and ...
Jan 17, 2019
McGill science group takes aim at pharmacies for selling 'quack' flu remedy
MONTREAL - A McGill University science communication group is taking aim at a commonly available homeopathic flu remedy and questioning why pharmacies continue to sell what it calls “quack remed...
Jan 17, 2019
Study finds more than half of food produced in Canada wasted
TORONTO — More than half the food produced in Canada is wasted and the average kitchen tosses out hundreds of dollars worth of edibles every year, says a study researchers are calling the first ...
Jan 17, 2019
Toronto FC heads for warmth of California to start training camp in earnest
TORONTO - After medicals and two days of fitness training indoors in the frigid north, Toronto FC heads to the warmth and real grass of California on Friday to start training camp in earnest. For coac...
Jan 17, 2019