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A chronology of Canada's participation in the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy
OTTAWA - A short chronology of Canada's participation in the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy: May 1943: Allies make final decision to invade. Initial invasion date May 1, 1944, then June 4, 1944. Summ...
May 29, 2019
Dispatches from Juno: How CP's war correspondents told the story of D-Day
OTTAWA - Dispatches from Ross Munro, William (Bill) Stewart and other war correspondents were how many Canadians in 1944 learned details of the June 6 D-Day landings and the fighting that followed. Th...
May 29, 2019
Hotline to help human trafficking victims, educate public launches across Canada
A national hotline to help victims and survivors of human trafficking is now taking calls, with the organization behind the service saying it hoped the new resource would also fill crucial gaps i...
May 29, 2019
Trump urges Roy Moore not to run for US Senate in Alabama
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is warning that the "consequences will be devastating" if Alabama Republican Roy Moore again runs for the U.S. Senate in 2020. Moore lost in the once-reliably red s...
May 29, 2019
Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's most powerful politician was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. The jail time for Liviu Dragnea, party leader of the ruli...
May 29, 2019
Corporate tax cut bill introduced
The province has officially introduced legislation that would see a cut in corporate taxes.The bill, called the Job Creation Tax Cut, would see the tax rate go from 12 percent to 11 percent July 1 and...
May 29, 2019 Photo supplied by the province.
Farage claims pro-Brexit momentum after divisive UK vote
LONDON - British euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal - a call ...
May 29, 2019
North Korea calls Bolton 'war monger' over missile comment
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a v...
May 29, 2019
Baghdad court sentences fourth French IS member to death
BAGHDAD - The French former members of the Islamic State group were brought into the courtroom in Baghdad one after the other on Monday and made to sit inside a wooden cage in the middle. As they spok...
May 29, 2019
Trump in Japan: Pomp and tense circumstance
TOKYO - All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn't paper over the tensions between President Donald Trump and Japan's Shinzo Abe on two of their most pressing issues: North Korea and trade. The ...
May 29, 2019