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Romania would welcome Canadian help in minimizing gap in Mali: envoy
OTTAWA - Romania's top diplomat in Canada says his country is moving as fast as it can to minimize a looming gap in the provision of lifesaving medical evacuations for injured UN peacekeepers and staf...
Apr 10, 2019
Report on missing, murdered Indigenous women to be released in June
OTTAWA - A much-anticipated report on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is set to be released to the public in June. The four-person commission asked to examine the causes of violence ag...
Apr 10, 2019
Astronaut David Saint-Jacques says first spacewalk was 'pure joy'
MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says it will likely take him years to fully absorb the experience of walking outside the International Space Station. Saint-Jacques spoke to repo...
Apr 10, 2019
CFL head coaches will now be allowed to make two challenges per contest
TORONTO - CFL head coaches will have the opportunity this season to launch two challenges in a game. The league's board of governors accepted a recommendation Wednesday from the CFL's rules committee ...
Apr 10, 2019
Canadian star R.J. Barrett entering NBA draft after one year at Duke
DURHAM, N.C. - Canada's R.J. Barrett will leave Duke University after one season and enter the 2019 NBA draft. The six-foot-seven forward from Mississauga, Ont., made the announcement on a video poste...
Apr 10, 2019
Former Harper cabinet minister hanging up his federal political hat
OTTAWA - Rob Nicholson, the longest-serving Conservative member of Parliament, isn't running for re-election in the fall. Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabine...
Apr 10, 2019
Pinterest sets conservative pricing after Lyft drop
NEW YORK - Pinterest, among the gaggle of tech companies hoping to go public this year, set a conservative price range Monday for its initial public offering. It hopes to raise as much as $1.5 billion...
Apr 10, 2019
Trudeau defends changes to asylum laws that have refugee workers alarmed
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending a changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill tabled this week, saying his government is working to ensure Canada's refugee system is ...
Apr 10, 2019
Trudeau says mayor who compared Quebec bill to ethnic cleansing should apologize
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined the chorus of politicians calling on a suburban Montreal mayor to apologize for likening Quebec secularism legislation to ethnic cleansing. Speaking t...
Apr 10, 2019
Former New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault will guide Canada at worlds
CALGARY - Alain Vigneault will coach Team Canada at the world men's hockey championship next month in Slovakia. The native of Quebec City was fired as head coach of the New York Rangers last off-seaso...
Apr 10, 2019