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Amazon dumps NYC headquarters and its promised 25,000 jobs
NEW YORK - Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians and activists objected to t...
Feb 16, 2019
'Really special:' Antique store wants to return WW1 veteran's letter to family
STEINBACH, Man. - At first Amanda Kehler didn't notice the envelope with a faded address lying among old newspapers and certificates. When she found the $1 box on the weekend, she decid...
Feb 16, 2019
Floors collapse at Russian university in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian emergency authorities say part of the roof and several floors of a university building in Russia's second-largest city have collapsed, but there were no immediate indi...
Feb 16, 2019
Plenty of Canadian content as Seattle hosts Toronto in Major League Rugby play
Canada captain Phil Mack's welcome will likely be warm and short Sunday when the Toronto Arrows visit his Seattle Seawolves in Major League Rugby play. Introductions won't be needed. Thirteen of the A...
Feb 16, 2019
Quebec, Montreal governments welcome proposal for new baseball stadium
MONTREAL - The initial enthusiasm from Quebec's Coalition Avenir Quebec government for a proposed Major League Baseball stadium in Montreal was slightly tempered Thursday after an oppos...
Feb 16, 2019
Liberals want quick results from new skills-training think-tank in Toronto
OTTAWA - Federal efforts to calm anxiety about a rapidly changing job market took another step Thursday as the Liberals launched a new agency ahead of a federal budget that will put a h...
Feb 16, 2019
Quebec, Montreal governments welcome proposal for new baseball stadium
MONTREAL - The initial enthusiasm from Quebec's Coalition Avenir Quebec government for a proposed Major League Baseball stadium in Montreal was slightly tempered Thursday after an oppos...
Feb 16, 2019
Violent protests in Haiti trap more than 100 Canadian tourists, aid workers
MONTREAL - Ottawa-based physician Emilio Bazile says food is running low for him and his 10-member medical team who have been trapped in southwest Haiti after protesters blocked major highwa...
Feb 16, 2019
Teacher who recorded students with pen camera is guilty of voyeurism: high court
OTTAWA - A high-school teacher who used a pen camera to surreptitiously take videos of female students is guilty of voyeurism, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In a ground-br...
Feb 16, 2019
Saturday's Scoreboard
WHLBrandon 5, Prince Albert 4 (OT)Regina 4, Edmonton 0Lethbridge 7, Swift Current 2Saskatoon 8, Kootenay 3Calgary 3, Medicine Hat 1Everett 3, Kelowna 1Victoria 4, Prince George 1Seattle 6, Red Deer 4T...
Feb 16, 2019
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