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Cousteau calls on all countries to do more to save and restore oceans
OTTAWA - Even the family that pioneered efforts to protect the worlds' oceans once believed you could throw garbage overboard without consequence. Jean-Michel Cousteau, environmental filmmaker and son...
Jan 27, 2019
As U.S. air travel stalls, Trump agrees to halt shutdown temporarily
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sounded a full retreat Friday in his border-wall war with Congress, agreeing to a three-week pause in the longest government shutdown in U.S. hi...
Jan 27, 2019
RCMP charge Kingston youth with trying to get someone to plant a bomb
KINGSTON, Ont. - The RCMP have charged a Kingston youth with terrorism, saying the person - who cannot be identified - allegedly tried to persuade someone to plant a bomb. A second...
Jan 27, 2019
U.S. hunters use duck hunting ruse to bag illegal quarry in Canada: ministry
REGINA - Several charges related to illegal hunting in Saskatchewan have been laid against two men from Missouri who were found guilty last month in one of that state's largest deer-poaching cases. Th...
Jan 27, 2019
Lucky 7: Djokovic routs Nadal for record 7th Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so flawless, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance. Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed oppon...
Jan 27, 2019
'Restore and rebuild Waterton:' $21M from Ottawa for fire- damaged national park
CALGARY - Ottawa is spending almost $21 million to help Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta bounce back from a destructive wildfire that scorched nearly 40 per cent of ...
Jan 27, 2019
Lucky 7: Djokovic routs Nadal for record 7th Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so flawless, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance. Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed oppon...
Jan 27, 2019
Prince Philip tells car crash victim he is 'deeply sorry'
LONDON - Britain's Prince Philip has apologized to a woman who was injured when the car she was riding in collided with a Land Rover that he was driving. The 97-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II ...
Jan 27, 2019
Canada pulling refuelling plane from anti-ISIL mission
OTTAWA - Coalition warplanes will no longer turn to the Canadian military for mid-air fill ups over Iraq and Syria. The Canadian Forces will bring home its Polaris air-to-air refuelling plane on Satur...
Jan 27, 2019
'Everybody's going to feel it:' Broncos families prepare for sentencing hearing
The hardest thing Chris Joseph ever had to do was get through the first 48 hours after his son died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The second hardest, he says, happens this wee...
Jan 27, 2019
