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Fort McMurray Wildfire Evacuees Dealing with Psychological Health Issues
FORT MCMURRAY: A preliminary look at data from a study on Fort McMurray residents shows many aren’t sleeping well. Laval University psychology professor Genevieve Belleville is heading a mental-...
Aug 17, 2016
Madonna joins in the stream of celebrities visiting Cuba
HAVANA - Madonna is the latest celebrity to visit Cuba, dancing in a restaurant for her birthday and touring Havana with her family and friends. The singer arrived in Havana on Monday. Excited crowds ...
Aug 17, 2016
AP Sources: Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012,...
Aug 17, 2016
Drouin Wins Gold in Men's High Jump
RIO DE JANEIRO: Canada’s Derek Drouin won the gold medal in the men’s high jump at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday, brimming with confidence as he laid down a near-perfect performance. Drouin ...
Aug 17, 2016
S. Korea: Senior N. Korean diplomat based in London defects
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A senior North Korean diplomat based in London has defected to South Korea, becoming one of the highest Northern officials to do so, South Korea said Wednesday. Thae Yong H...
Aug 17, 2016
Explorers find second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in Great Lakes
ALBANY, N.Y. - The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater...
Aug 17, 2016
Case of teens accused of sharing intimate images important: prosecutor
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - The “large-scale” case of six teenaged boys accused of keeping intimate photos on a Dropbox account will be an early test of a law designed to combat the unwanted onlin...
Aug 17, 2016
25 years on, Russians tell of how they defeated a coup
MOSCOW - The KGB major was on vacation in the Russian countryside in August 1991 when he woke up to a radio broadcast announcing a state of national emergency. The bulletin contained something else: a...
Aug 17, 2016
FBI taking steps to keep Clinton email files from leaking
WASHINGTON - The FBI is strictly limiting access to documents from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and warning members of Congress not to leak them....
Aug 17, 2016
Six stories in the news today, Aug. 17
Six stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: ____ TEENS IN NOVA SCOTIA COURT TO FACE CHARGES UNDER NEW LAW Six teenaged boys are expected in a Nova Scotia court today to face the first charg...
Aug 17, 2016