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1-year-old dies in fall from cruise ship in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A 1-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Police S...
Jul 10, 2019
Powell signals that rate cut could be coming soon
WASHINGTON - Chairman Jerome Powell signalled Wednesday that the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates late this month for the first time in a decade in light of a weakening global economy a...
Jul 10, 2019
The Latest: Soccer team honoured with symbolic key to city
NEW YORK - The Latest on a New York City parade and ceremony honouring the U.S. women's national soccer team (all times local): 11:55 a.m. U.S. women's soccer team player Megan Rapinoe (ruh-PEE'-noh) ...
Jul 10, 2019
Legal pot price as much as 80 per cent more than illicit: StatCan
The average cost of a gram of cannabis from the illicit market continues to drop as legal prices rise - with authorized retailers charging as much as 80 per cent more, according to an analysis by...
Jul 10, 2019
Scheer promises to scrap clean-fuel standard
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels, in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins...
Jul 10, 2019
David Saint-Jacques gets hero's welcome in return to space agency headquarters
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Astronaut David Saint-Jacques was met with thunderous applause today as he returned to a hero's welcome at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters near Montreal. Space agency sta...
Jul 10, 2019
Lack of host communities hampering Pikangikum evacuation: chief
PIKANGIKUM, Ont. - The chief of an Ontario First Nation threatened by a forest fire says a plan to evacuate residents via buses and boats today has been paused because of a lack of space in host commu...
Jul 10, 2019
Stoby to represent Grande Prairie & Canada at the World Mixed Martial Arts Championships
A Grande Prairie product will be competing on the World stage in August.Ian Stoby of Champion Gym and Gladiators MMA will be competing at the IMMAF World Mixed Martial Arts Championships in Rome Italy...
Jul 10, 2019 (photo credit to Gladiator Martial Arts Academy)
Federal Liberals blast Ontario Tories over looming Bombardier layoffs
OTTAWA - Looming layoffs at Bombardier's railway car plant in Thunder Bay, Ont., are creating a political row between Queens Park and Parliament Hill. The federal Liberals and Ontario Tories are ...
Jul 10, 2019
Lawyer who took on DuPont has book coming out
NEW YORK - A top environmental lawyer, the inspiration for a film starring Mark Ruffalo, has a book coming about his 20-year battle with DuPont. Rob Bilott's "Exposure" is scheduled for release in Oct...
Jul 10, 2019