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PM's former top adviser asks to testify after Wilson-Raybould bombshell
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary, Gerald Butts, wants to give his side of the story in the SNC-Lavalin affair. Butts wrote the House of Commons justice com...
Mar 02, 2019
Harvard choir that rejected W.E.B. Du Bois pays him tribute
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Harvard University choir group that rejected author W.E.B. Du Bois when he was a student because he was black will celebrate his work through a musical tribute. The Harvard Glee C...
Mar 02, 2019
Trudeau announces Canada will be partner in NASA-led Lunar Gateway project
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canada will be a partner in a NASA-led project to establish an outpost for lunar exploration as part of a revitalized national space program, Prime Minister Justin Tru...
Mar 02, 2019
National Defence lowballing cost of used Aussie fighters: budget officer
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says the Department of National Defence might have deliberately lowballed the cost of buying and flying second-hand fighter jets from Australia by $200 million. T...
Mar 02, 2019
Growing support for separating roles of justice minister and attorney general
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of t...
Mar 02, 2019
Friday's Scoreboard
Friday's Games WHL Prince Albert 2, Red Deer 1 (SO)Lethbridge 5, Moose Jaw 0 Saskatoon 4, Regina 0 Kootenay 5, Swift Current 3Calgary 3, Brandon 2 (OT)Edmonton 5, Medicine Hat 2Seattle 6, Kamloops 4Sp...
Mar 02, 2019
Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
WASHINGTON - After three days of grilling Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Democrats are quickly using his words as a roadmap to open new lines of investigation into the presiden...
Mar 02, 2019
Young girls at James Smith escape attack by stray dogs
An incident on the James Smith Cree Nation last week involving two young girls being attacked by a small pack of stray dogs, illustrates how serious the problem has become, according to the band's Dir...
Mar 02, 2019 (Facebook/James Smith Cree Nation community message/ events board)
Russian Nobel winner Alferov dies at 88
MOSCOW - Zhores Alferov, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has died. He was 88. His death was announced Saturday by the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, where Alferov...
Mar 02, 2019
America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size test ...
Mar 02, 2019
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