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Official: Plane in Chicago had 'uncontained engine failure'
CHICAGO - Pilots were forced to abort a takeoff and evacuate passengers from a burning American Airlines flight Friday on a runway at Chicago O’Hare International Airport after the airliner expe...
Oct 28, 2016
Reporter named in Muskrat Falls court order says it sets dangerous precedent
GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A journalist who has been ordered to appear in court over his presence at the Muskrat Falls protests says he was reporting, not protesting - and his case could set a dangerous preced...
Oct 28, 2016
An FBI bombshell lands on Hillary Clinton's clear path to the White House
Hillary Clinton’s waltz toward the White House has just been complicated by a bombshell dropped on her path by the FBI - police announced they are examining new emails three months after they cl...
Oct 28, 2016
Foreign buyers 1.3 per cent of Metro Vancouver real estate sales since tax
VANCOUVER - The rate of foreign investment in Metro Vancouver housing has fallen to 1.3 per cent since the introduction of a new tax targeting international buyers, according to new data from the Brit...
Oct 28, 2016
Refugees, powerful women and food: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - Official Ottawa was on the edge of its seat all week, anxious to see how the CETA soap opera would end. Would the Walloons sabotage the free trade agreement between Canada and Europe that had...
Oct 28, 2016
Activists split as Clinton makes push for black millennials
PHILADELPHIA - Six months into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she met with a group of Black Lives Matter activists in Washington to make her case and seek their support. DeRay Mckesson...
Oct 28, 2016
Education gap divides white voters
DODGE CITY, Kan. - At 18, Mike Smith chose trucking over college. Hauling cattle feed was lucrative for a teenager, and it seemed he could have a pretty good life without a degree. Now, 40 years later...
Oct 28, 2016
With newfound vigour, Obama works to rebuild Democratic Party
WASHINGTON - Gone is the old President Barack Obama, who approached campaigning for other Democrats as a chore. The new Obama is throwing himself into rebuilding his party in his final months in the W...
Oct 28, 2016
Another indigenous girl commits suicide on northern Saskatchewan reserve
LOON LAKE, Sask. - Another indigenous girl has committed suicide in northern Saskatchewan - the fifth this month. Barry Chalifoux, a grief counsellor for a school on the Makwa Sahgaiehcan reserve, sai...
Oct 28, 2016
N.S. picks annual Christmas tree to thank Boston for aid after Halifax Explosion
HALIFAX - It is by tradition the first Christmas tree to be lit every year on the Boston Common - a gift from Nova Scotia for the American city’s help 99 years ago when the Halifax Explosion kil...
Oct 28, 2016