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Simpsons take shot at Ottawa Senators in Canadian-themed episode
The Ottawa Senators were unable to avoid being the punchline of a joke on Sunday's Canadian-themed episode of The Simpsons. The episode, titled D'Oh Canada, featured a scene w...
Apr 29, 2019
Scheer to demand Canada pull funds from Chinese multilateral development bank
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to respond to China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by taking a number of steps, including pulling hundre...
Apr 29, 2019
160,000 at risk in Mozambique after 2nd cyclone in 6 weeks
PEMBA, Mozambique - A second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging flood waters killed one person and began to cut off the region's main city from...
Apr 29, 2019
In the news today, April 29
Four stories in the news for Monday, April 29 --- NO RESPITE FROM FLOODING IN QUE., ONT., N.B. Thousands of people across Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick are facing several more days of f...
Apr 29, 2019
No respite from flood threat for thousands in Que., Ont., and N.B.
MONTREAL - Thousands of people across Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick are facing several more days of flooding that has already been life-changing for many. The most dire situation is in Ste-Marthe...
Apr 29, 2019
Injured Humboldt Broncos player returns home for first time since accident
AIRDRIE, Alta. - The mother of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki has shed a lot of tears over the past year and that didn't change as the family finally returned to its newly renovate...
Apr 29, 2019
Study of 2018 New Brunswick flooding looks at ways of easing mental health toll
FREDERICTON - A sociologist says the 2018 flood in southern New Brunswick took a physical and mental toll, and as flooding again hits the province she plans to recommend ways to ease suffering ca...
Apr 29, 2019
Rabbi recounts synagogue shooting
POWAY, Calif. - Eight-year-old Noya Dahan had finished praying and gone to play with other children at her Southern California synagogue when gunshots rang out. Her uncle grabbed her and the other chi...
Apr 29, 2019
Police: 8 shot, 1 fatally, in latest Baltimore shooting
BALTIMORE - A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday afternoon cookouts along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and r...
Apr 29, 2019
'What happened to Felipe?' Film helps Lopez tell his story
NEW YORK - Felipe Lopez somehow forgot what all the attention was like. That would have been impossible to imagine 25 years ago, back when he practically owned magazine covers and newspaper headlines....
Apr 29, 2019
