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Parents blame North Korea's 'evil regime' for son's death
CINCINNATI - Unlike President Donald Trump, Otto Warmbier's parents don't believe North Korea's leader. The parents of the American college student who was sent home from North Korea in a vegetative s...
Mar 01, 2019
Live on-air licking of TV reporter sparks anger, complaint to police
TORONTO - An incident in which a well-known comic actor nuzzles and licks the ear of an on-air TV journalist reporting from a meeting of comedians sparked widespread public condemnation and promp...
Mar 01, 2019
Anti-vaccine campaign 'very concerning,' says Ontario's health minister
TORONTO - An ad campaign from a group of open vaccine skeptics that briefly dotted some streets in the Toronto area represents a "very concerning" development in the ongoing fight ...
Mar 01, 2019
Timeline: SNC-Lavalin and Jody Wilson-Raybould
OTTAWA - A chronology of events in the SNC-Lavalin controversy: Feb. 19, 2015 - The RCMP lays corruption and fraud charges against Montreal-based engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin, over al...
Mar 01, 2019
Alberta budget deficit almost $2B lower than originally forecast: finance minister
EDMONTON - A third-quarter update from the Alberta government forecasts a budget deficit almost $2 billion lower than originally forecast due in part to higher than expected b...
Mar 01, 2019
Labour code issues flagged after fatal Canadian Pacific accident in Calgary
CALGARY - Documents show a federal investigator flagged labour code contraventions after a Canadian Pacific Railway train conductor died in a workplace accident in a Calgary rail yard l...
Mar 01, 2019
Father-daughter rowing team arrives in Antigua after crossing the Atlantic
After spending three months rowing a small boat across the moody Atlantic Ocean, father-daughter duo John and Libby Beeden say they're wobbly but relieved to have arrived on solid land. It wasn't...
Mar 01, 2019
Montreal police won't face charges in fatal 2017 shooting of black man: Crown
MONTREAL - Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office say it won't press charges against the Montreal police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention. The office says in a news re...
Mar 01, 2019
Immigration and clean power top agenda for federal and Atlantic officials
HALIFAX - A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program was supposed to end this yea...
Mar 01, 2019
Alberta ban on school seclusion rooms comes with possible exemptions
EDMONTON - Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall. Eggen stresses that...
Mar 01, 2019
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