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Yankees' Germán suspended 81 games for domestic violence
NEW YORK - Yankees pitcher Domingo Germn will miss the first 63 games of the 2020 season as part of an 81-game ban for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy. The league announced ...
Jan 4, 2020
Mounties defend social-media profiling after assembling portrait of activist
OTTAWA - The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social-media postings, saying the police force lawfully obtains information with the aim of protecting Canad...
Jan 4, 2020
Fuel spill at Montreal's Trudeau airport as refuelling workers' strike continues
MONTREAL - Aircraft refuelling workers with Swissport Canada remained off the job Saturday as a strike that began earlier in the week continued. The company has been maintaining refuelling s...
Jan 4, 2020
NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security
BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...
Jan 4, 2020
NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security
BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...
Jan 4, 2020
Son of television producer dies in ski accident in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - The son of television producer Jenji Kohan, who created the series "range Is the New Black," died in a New Year's Eve ski accident in Utah, police said Thursday. Charles "Charlie" Nox...
Jan 4, 2020
House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 4, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...
Jan 4, 2020
Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
NEW YORK - Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than ...
Jan 4, 2020
'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead
REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...
Jan 4, 2020
