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Google to buy power from solar farms in Tennessee, Alabama
NASHVILLE - Google plans to buy power from Tennessee and Alabama solar farms under a deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Google announced Wednesday that it will buy 413 megawatts of output from ...
Jan 17, 2019
Another McKeever steps onto cross-country skiing's international stage
Xavier McKeever’s earliest memory of cross-country skiing with his parents is being used as a training aid. Robin McKeever and Milaine Theriault towed their toddler instead of a tire up hills du...
Jan 17, 2019
Cape Breton's Eskasoni First Nation in mental health crisis: chief
ESKASONI, N.S. - Nova Scotia’s largest Mi’kmaq community is in the throes of a mental health crisis, with multiple suicides in recent weeks, the chief of the Eskasoni First Nation says. Le...
Jan 17, 2019
Ex-Liberal candidate in Burnaby, B.C., says volunteer wrote controversial post
VANCOUVER - A former Liberal byelection candidate says her political career is “probably” over after an online post singled out NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s ethnicity, but she’s ...
Jan 17, 2019
Legault lays out Quebec demands for federal leaders facing fall election
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec Premier Francois Legault laid out a shopping list of demands Thursday that he expects party leaders to address as they woo voters in his province during the coming federal el...
Jan 17, 2019
Ontario's Tories eliminate free tuition for low-income students
TORONTO - Ontario has eliminated free tuition for low-income students as it attempts to trim a multibillion-dollar deficit, a move that - despite an accompanying tuition fee cut - is being slammed as ...
Jan 17, 2019
Barack Obama, former U.S. president, to speak in Vancouver in early March
VANCOUVER - Former United States president Barack Obama is coming to Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at ...
Jan 17, 2019
Hundreds of people lost millions in GTA taxi fraud scam, police say
TORONTO - An ongoing fraud and identity theft operation targeting taxi riders in the Greater Toronto Area has already cost hundreds of people millions of dollars, city police said Thursday as they ann...
Jan 17, 2019
Fans buy 'Little House on the Prairie' star's memorabilia
GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. - More than 200 items belonging to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert and her husband, Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, have been purchased in an ...
Jan 17, 2019
Lowry in but Leonard, Anunoby and Valanciunas to sit out Phoenix game
TORONTO - The Raptors got some good news Thursday with star point guard Kyle Lowry and C.J. Miles both pronounced fit to play against the Phoenix Suns. Toronto said earlier in the day that Lowry, Kawh...
Jan 17, 2019