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Will claims of illegal party financing sink Charest's hopes of political comeback?
MONTREAL - While former Quebec premier Jean Charest mulls a leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada, recently unsealed police warrants have given his political opponents plenty o...
Jan 18, 2020
Trudeau, ministers head to Winnipeg for cabinet retreat, western outreach
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reviving his practice of holding periodic cabinet retreats outside the nation's capital - an exercise in regional outreach that his office maintains is w...
Jan 18, 2020
Audit to test federal government on oversight of student-loans program
OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general is examining how the government manages billions of dollars in the Canada Student Loans program, and whether it's helping students be smarter about their financial de...
Jan 18, 2020
Leaders meet on plane crash and John Crosbie's funeral; In The News for Jan. 16
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 16 ... What we are watchin...
Jan 18, 2020
Germany agrees timeline, compensation for coal phase-out
BERLIN - Germany will pay utility companies billions of euros to speed up the shutdown of their coal-fired power plants as part of the country's efforts to fight climate change, the government said Th...
Jan 18, 2020
Iran must compensate crash victims' families, Canada-led group agrees
LONDON - Canada and its allies sent a stern message to Iran on Thursday: get ready to pay the families of those who died on board the Ukrainian airliner it shot down, and don't try to block ...
Jan 18, 2020
John Crosbie remembered as patriot, 'indomitable' force at state funeral
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Generations of Canadian politicians filed into an Anglican cathedral in snowy downtown St. John's Thursday to honour a man described as a one-of-a-kind political figure wh...
Jan 18, 2020
Once proposed as ski resort: B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to First Nation
A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries. After decades of controv...
Jan 18, 2020
Calls for dialogue as pipeline polarizes some in northern British Columbia
HOUSTON, B.C. - A natural gas pipeline project has polarized many communities across northern British Columbia in a dispute a Wet'suwet'en elder says he hopes will be res...
Jan 18, 2020
US says its pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai sponsored by UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United States said its participation at this year's World's Fair in Dubai is being made possible by "the generosity of the Emirati government." The U.S. State Departm...
Jan 18, 2020
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