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Canada wants Lima Group meeting to keep pressure on Maduro to step down
OTTAWA - Canada and its Lima Group allies will use their Monday meeting in Ottawa to find new ways - including financial - to support the Venezuelan opposition and ease the refugee crisis in neig...
Feb 1, 2019
Vancouver Canucks looking for road wins to claw out clear playoff position
VANCOUVER - Heading into the back half of the hockey season, the Vancouver Canucks know each game will carry a little extra weight. Vancouver (23-22-6) sat just outside of a Western Con...
Feb 1, 2019
Images show evidence of what could be one of Canada's oldest graveyards
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. - Researchers using ground-penetrating radar have found what they believe is one of the oldest European graveyards in Canada. Archeologist Sara Beanlands says ther...
Feb 1, 2019
Access searches for military should be broadened for other identifiers: Vance
OTTAWA - The Defence Department wasn't trying to hide any information when its staff used terms other than Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's name in internal communications, Canada's top military office...
Feb 1, 2019
Activists ask Trudeau to act as Canadian trash continues to rot in Manila
OTTAWA - More than 100 community and environment groups in the Philippines are pleading with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take out Canada's trash. Under the banner EcoWaste Coalition, the gro...
Feb 1, 2019
Muslim groups denounce Quebec Premier Legault's statements on Islamophobia
MONTREAL - Muslim groups are denouncing as insulting and offensive Quebec Premier Francois Legault's statement Thursday that Islamophobia does not exist in Quebec. The National Council of Ca...
Feb 1, 2019
SGI watching for seatbelt use this month
Everybody knows people should wear their seatbelts when out for a drive.But there is still that small percentage of people in Saskatchewan that don't buckle up.This month's SGI traffic safety spotligh...
Feb 1, 2019
Cuba criticizes Canada's diplomatic downsize after another diplomat falls ill
OTTAWA - The Cuban government is criticizing Canada's decision on Wednesday to halve its embassy staff after a 14th Canadian fell ill to an unexplained illness in Ha...
Feb 1, 2019
Fate of truck driver in Humboldt bus crash will test sentencing system: experts
A legal expert says the punishment for the truck driver responsible for the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash will put Canada's sentencing provisions to the test. Jennifer Quaid, a law profe...
Feb 1, 2019
Court orders conditional release of ex-Ivory Coast leader
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges ordered the conditional release Friday of Ivory Coast's ex-president and a former youth minister, more than two weeks after they were acqui...
Feb 1, 2019
