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Environmental groups call subsidies to fossil fuel industry an 'anti-carbon tax'
A study suggests Canada’s attempts to set a price on carbon are being undercut by subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry. A coalition of four environmental groups have summed up tax exemptions, i...
Nov 15, 2016
Babcock coaxing Matthews through slowdown; nine in a row without a goal
TORONTO - To help Auston Matthews through the first offensive slowdown of his early NHL career, Mike Babcock has been employing video of Sidney Crosby and Henrik Zetterberg. The Maple Leafs head coach...
Nov 15, 2016
Cespedes, Abreu on US witness list in Cuban smuggling case
MIAMI - Free agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who last played for the New York Mets, and Chicago White Sox star Jose Abreu are among the Major League Baseball figures on a U.S. witness list for an up...
Nov 15, 2016
Justin Trudeau arrives in Cuba, meets with president Raul Castro
HAVANA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Cuba on Tuesday evening, where the country’s president told him the island nation will not progress any faster than it already is. Cuban Preside...
Nov 15, 2016
Thicker Canada-US border unlikely under Trump, ex-security czar predicts
TORONTO - The Canada-U.S. border is unlikely to see any thickening under president-elect Donald Trump despite the Republican’s protectionist campaign rhetoric, former American security czar Tom ...
Nov 15, 2016
West Virginia town tries to move past Michelle Obama post
CLAY, W.Va. - As a small West Virginia community tries to move past the backlash of a racist Facebook post that targeted first lady Michelle Obama, a council member had some inviting words for outside...
Nov 15, 2016
Extensive cultural damage found in historic Iraqi city
NIMRUD, Iraq - Nearly a month into the fight to retake Mosul, government forces pushed Islamic State militants out of nearby Nimrud, home to some of Iraq’s richest archaeological treasures. And ...
Nov 15, 2016
'Want him to be safe:' Wife says Turkish-Canadian imam Davud Hanci in solitary
CALGARY - The wife of a Calgary imam says he is being held in solitary confinement in Turkey and worrying about his well-being has been torturous. Davud Hanci, who has Canadian and Turkish citizenship...
Nov 15, 2016
Autopsies on girl, father in Saskatchewan Amber Alert; but no word on how died
CHOICELAND, Sask. - RCMP in Saskatchewan say autopsies have been completed on the bodies of a seven-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert and her father. Police say the investigation has...
Nov 15, 2016
Ontario judge apologizes for wearing Make America Great Again hat in court
HAMILTON - An Ontario judge who came under fire for wearing a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat in court has apologized for his behaviour, calling it a “lapse in judgment.&...
Nov 15, 2016