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Bonjour, Alexa! How a virtual assistant learned to speak Canadian French
MONTREAL - Last September, Hans Laroche embarked on an unusual teaching assignment. He and a few thousand fellow Quebecers were enlisted to help Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa learn the finer ...
Mar 31, 2019
Fireworks, barking: Nunavut celebrates 20th birthday with optimism, reservations
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Fireworks exploded over Frobisher Bay while sled dogs chained to the sea ice howled and barked in the new capital of Iqaluit the night Nunavut was born. The territory marks its 20th...
Mar 31, 2019
Canada's chief justice urges 'major reforms' to judge oversight
TORONTO - The body that handles complaints about the behaviour of federally appointed judges is in need of both internal and legislative reform to streamline what is now a cumbersome disciplinary proc...
Mar 31, 2019
N. Korea calls for investigation into Madrid embassy attack
TOKYO - North Korea said Sunday it wants an investigation into a raid on its embassy in Spain last month, calling it a “grave terrorist attack” and an act of extortion that violates intern...
Mar 31, 2019
At least 7 killed in China's latest industrial accident
BEIJING - At least seven people were killed and five injured Sunday when a container containing scrap metal exploded in the latest in a series of industrial accidents in eastern China. The early morni...
Mar 31, 2019
Reports: Man shoots dead 7 family members in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian media says a man has shot dead seven members of his wife’s family in the southwestern city of Dezful. The state-owned IRNA news agency said Sunday the shooter wielded a Ka...
Mar 31, 2019
Israel, Hamas take first steps toward Gaza cease-fire deal
JERUSALEM - A cease-fire deal appeared to take hold between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Sunday, with Israel expanding the permitted fishing zone and easing some tight restrictions on movem...
Mar 31, 2019
Ukraine comedian leads presidential election, runoff likely
KIEV, Ukraine - Early results in Ukraine’s presidential election showed a comedian with no political experience with a sizable lead over 38 rivals but far from a first-round victory, while the i...
Mar 31, 2019
US struggling with growing number of asylum seekers
WASHINGTON - Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the sw...
Mar 31, 2019
Transplants help keep Quebec City's small anglophone community vibrant
QUEBEC - Within the ramparts of Quebec City, a library and cultural centre for the city’s English-speaking minority housed in a former jail is run by a soft-spoken spectacled man from rural New ...
Mar 31, 2019