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High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as experts warn the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to...
Feb 11, 2020
Trump nominates new ambassador to Canada to fill post vacant since August
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has nominated a North Carolina Republican, physician and former diplomat as the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. The White House says Aldona Z. Wos, who is curr...
Feb 11, 2020
Alberta unloads crude-by-rail contracts signed under former NDP government
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government has unloaded crude-by-rail contracts signed under the previous NDP government, but details aren't being disclosed yet. His predecessor, Rache...
Feb 11, 2020
Calgary Stampeders active on busy opening day of CFL free agency period
TORONTO - John Hufnagel wasn't kidding. Traditionally, the Calgary Stampeders haven't been active when CFL free agency begins. But Hufnagel, the club's president/GM, told reporters Monday that&nb...
Feb 11, 2020
Oscar de la Renta opens, closes show with Bella Hadid
NEW YORK - Watching the Oscar de la Renta show unfold in the imposing setting of the New York Public Library in Manhattan, it was hard not to think back some 24 hours to a different Oscar: the Academy...
Feb 11, 2020
Anti-pipeline protesters blocking access to Vancouver ports served with injunction
Anti-pipeline protesters were served Sunday with a court injunction ordering them to stop blocking access to four ports in the Vancouver area, marking the latest development in what has become a natio...
Feb 11, 2020
New Brunswick's John Williamson decides against running for Tory leadership
OTTAWA - Another potential contender for leadership of the federal Conservatives is backing away from the race. John Williamson, a member of Parliament from New Brunswick, says he won't enter the cont...
Feb 11, 2020
Hospitals threatened to not see troops after military cut reimbursement rates
OTTAWA - Senior defence officials were warned that a fight with provinces and hospitals over soldiers' medical costs could mean "negative exposure" weeks before it erupted on the federal cam...
Feb 11, 2020
Montreal Lake shooting suspect receives two-year jail sentence
The circumstances surrounding the death of 25-year-old Trina Bird, and the shooting of a 16-year-old boy, were discussed in detail during a hearing Tuesday morning at Prince Albert Court of Queen's Be...
Feb 11, 2020 A photo taken by a witness Nov. 17, 2018 of RCMP officers tending to Trina Bird after the occupants had run off. (file photo/ paNOW Staff)
Petition calls for stricter traffic control at East Flat intersection
A group of East Flat residents was at P.A. city hall on Monday night to ask councillors to take steps to combat what they say has become a dangerous intersection. A petition to have a four-way stop or...
Feb 11, 2020 A petition from East Flat residents is asking the city to do something to improve safety at the corner of Fourth St. E. and 10th Ave. E. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
