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Lena Dunham celebrates 1st year of sobriety
NEW YORK - Lena Dunham is celebrating one year of sobriety. The 32-year-old actress shared her milestone in an Instagram post Wednesday with a photo of her flashing a thumbs-up. The "Girls" creator re...
Apr 10, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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