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Desmond fatality inquiry begins in Nova Scotia two years after suicide, murders
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - More than two years after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking his own life, a provincial fatality inquiry ...
May 23, 2019
Pipeline protester chimes in on prime minister's fundraising speech
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous protester opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Liberal fundraiser on Wednesday. Will George of the Tsle...
May 23, 2019
Nik Wallenda and sister plan highwire walk over Times Square
NEW YORK - For his next trick, daredevil Nik Wallenda plans to cross New York's Times Square - without his feet touching the ground. ABC announced Thursday that Wallenda and his sister Lijana will cro...
May 23, 2019
Elle Fanning OK after fainting at Cannes dinner
CANNES, France - Elle Fanning says she fainted at a Cannes Film Festival dinner because he dress was too tight. The 21-year-old actress collapsed at the Chopard Trophee dinner Monday evening at Cannes...
May 23, 2019
With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes
CANNES, France - Twenty-five years after premiering "Pulp Fiction" in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a gentler fairy ...
May 23, 2019
In the news today, May 23
Four stories in the news for Thursday, May 23 --- TRUDEAU TO EXONERATE CHIEF POUNDMAKER Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief ...
May 23, 2019
Clean energy one of Canada's fastest growing industries
OTTAWA - Canada's clean-energy sector says it's growing faster than the economy as a whole and is rivalling some better-known industries for jobs. Clean Energy Canada is releasing a study today it com...
May 23, 2019
Trudeau in Saskatchewan to exonerate Chief Poundmaker of treason
CUT KNIFE, Sask. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief unjustly convicted of treason more than 130 years ago. Trudeau is to vindi...
May 23, 2019
Parties shop for housing ideas for platforms with issue high on voters' lists
OTTAWA - Federal parties are preparing to chase voters with ideas for dealing with what a new survey suggests is a major concern across the country: Housing affordability. The ideas being shopped...
May 23, 2019
Futurist Martine Rothblatt sees a day when human and machine become one
MONTREAL - It's reasonable to expect that in 50 years, humans will build their own identities the way computers download software, says futurist Martine Rothblatt. By that time, she predicts, we ...
May 23, 2019
