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Trump pardons Conrad Black for 2007 fraud convictions in U.S.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire once include...
May 15, 2019
3 dead, 3 missing after small tour planes collide in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three people were killed after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in midair Monday near a southeast Alaska town, the Coast Guard said. Three others ar...
May 15, 2019
AP source: Barr launches new look at origins of Russia probe
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was "l...
May 15, 2019
Billion dollar pipeline to move natural gas liquids from the Peace
CALGARY - Shares in Keyera Corp. rose by as much as nine per cent after it announced it will proceed with a long-anticipated $1.3-billion pipeline to bring natural gas liquids from northwestern Albert...
May 15, 2019 From the Keyera Corp. Facebook page
Expect a busy wildfire season: Natural Resources Canada
A new forecast from Natural Resources Canada shows the danger of wildfires in Western Canada is extreme in parts of the southern Prairies.The latest report from the department's Northern Forestry Cent...
May 15, 2019
Jackson plays for record 14th team, Blue Jays lose to Giants
SAN FRANCISCO - Edwin Jackson became the first player in major league history to play for 14 teams when he made his Toronto Blue Jays debut and pitched five innings Wednesday in a 4-3 loss to the San ...
May 15, 2019
Politicians condemn RCMP questioning of Indigenous girl who reported sex assault
OTTAWA - Federal politicians are condemning a video of an RCMP officer conducting an "abhorrent" interrogation of an Indigenous teen who reported she'd been sexually assaulted. Cro...
May 15, 2019
Officials: PG&E equipment sparked deadly California wildfire
SAN FRANCISCO - California fire officials said Wednesday that Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. power lines sparked a Northern California blaze that killed 85 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildf...
May 15, 2019
Defence say Navy SEAL prosecutors spied on them
LOS ANGELES - Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defence lawyers and a reporte...
May 15, 2019
What are panic attacks and what causes them? A look at the issue
TORONTO - Supreme Court Justice Clement Gascon, who briefly went missing in Ottawa last week, recently explained that his disappearance was caused by a panic attack. Here's a look at the science and t...
May 15, 2019