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Scheer makes election promise to remove GST from home-heating bills
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to remove federal sales tax from Canadians' home-heating bills as part of an early election campaign commitment. If elected in the October ...
Mar 06, 2019
In the news today, Mar. 6
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Mar. 6 --- HUAWEI EXEC MENG WANZHOU RETURNING TO COURT Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, is set to return to British C...
Mar 06, 2019
Price ties Plante on wins list, Canadiens beat Kings 3-1
LOS ANGELES - The mark Carey Price has made in his 12 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens was scribbled in two lines of black marker on a dry erase board in the visitors' locker room, signifying the g...
Mar 06, 2019
Star of immigration film says detention feels like reprisal
MIAMI - An Argentine immigrant said his most recent detention feels like retaliation for starring in a new award-winning documentary about a group that infiltrated a for-profit detention centre to exp...
Mar 06, 2019
Feds to again underspend on new military kit, threatening NATO target
OTTAWA - The federal government will invest billions of dollars less in new military equipment than promised this year, raising concerns about the readiness of the Canadian Forces and the prospec...
Mar 06, 2019
Gerald Butts to give PMO version of events in SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Liberals are hoping they'll get some ammunition today to fight back against accusations of political interference in the justice system when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal s...
Mar 06, 2019
Government delays threaten N.W.T. satellite data industry: company
A Norwegian company with millions of dollars invested in the Canadian North is weeks away from losing a major contract in the emerging space satellite industry because of a lengthy gove...
Mar 06, 2019
Arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou returns to a B.C. courtroom today
VANCOUVER - Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, is set to return to British Columbia Supreme Court today. The executive was arrested in December at Vancouver's airport&nb...
Mar 06, 2019
At least 23 dead as tornadoes, severe storms ravage South
BEAUREGARD, Ala. - A tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 23 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that caused catastrophic damage and unleashed ...
Mar 05, 2019
House Democrats launch aggressive new Trump probe
WASHINGTON - Democrats launcheda sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump on Monday, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potent...
Mar 05, 2019
