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Supreme Court won't hear dispute over discipline of federally appointed judges
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not delve into questions about the process for disciplining federally appointed judges. The top court has declined to hear the Canadian Ju...
Dec 12, 2019
Chewing for charity: Toffifee competition benefits the Rose Garden Hospice
Raiders staff and radio personalities exercised their sweet tooth for a good cause on Wednesday.The 4th annual Toffifee Eating Championship was hosted at the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Prince Albert...
Dec 12, 2019 Power 99's Andy Cohen (left) and XFM Co-host, Kelly Taylor (right) look on as Head Coach of the Prince Albert Raiders, Marc Habscheid (centre) digs into a box of Toffifee. (paNOW Staff/ Ronald Quaroni)
Prague to ink partnership with Taipei after snubbing Beijing
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The city of Prague, the Czech capital, approved Thursday a partnership agreement with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei. The move comes two months after Prague revoked a similar s...
Dec 12, 2019
Democrats, White House forge new North American trade deal
WASHINGTON - House Democrats and the White House announced a deal on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win Tuesday on the same day that impeachm...
Dec 12, 2019
Wholesale prices unchanged in November as energy prices cool
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices were unchanged in November as the rise in energy costs slowed following a big gain in the previous month. The Labor Department said Thursday that the flat reading in...
Dec 12, 2019
Trump criticizes teen climate activist after magazine honour
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculou...
Dec 12, 2019
UK voters decide who they want to resolve Brexit impasse
LONDON - Britons who have endured three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate a...
Dec 12, 2019
Climate activists protest at EU building as leaders gather
BRUSSELS - Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union's new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner warning of a "climate emergency," hours before the bloc's leaders gather...
Dec 12, 2019
Tentative deal reached to keep Metro Vancouver's SkyTrains running
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver's transit system dodged a major disruption for the second time in less than two weeks on Tuesday as a tentative agreement was reached to keep SkyTrains running. The Ca...
Dec 12, 2019
Hamilton welder to carry Canada colours at World Darts Championship in London
Canadian Matt Campbell is expecting a wild scene when he takes centre stage this weekend at the William Hill World Darts Championship in London. Take a packed house at the 3,000-capacity Ale...
Dec 12, 2019
