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Israeli president travels to Niagara, Ottawa, Toronto on state visit
OTTAWA - The president of Israel is in Ottawa on Monday, meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before laying a wreath at the new National Holocaust Monument. Reuven Rivlin is in the country for three ...
Apr 01, 2019
Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 1, 2019
Today NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary for an announcement at 10 a.m.United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney will be in Edmonton this morning to make a response to federal carbon tax.Alber...
Apr 01, 2019
Arrest warrants out for pair linked to Red Deer death
The RCMP has issued arrest warrants for two people in the death of a man in Red Deer.Mounties were called to a home in Red Deer's Mountview neighbourhood early Friday and found a 45-year-old man with ...
Apr 01, 2019 37-year-old's Quentin Lee Strawberry (left) and Jennifer Lee Caswell (right) are wanted by RCMP. Do not approach them if seen. (Photo: RCMP / rdnewsNOW)
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's exaggerations about the Russia probe
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is taking his interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation well beyond the facts. He says he's been fully exonerated based on a four-page...
Apr 01, 2019
Harris eyes reform as candidate, was cautious as prosecutor
WASHINGTON - When Kamala Harris made her much-heralded arrival in Washington as California's first black U.S. senator, she made a curious early decision. Within months of her swearing-in, she sponsore...
Apr 01, 2019
Biden says he never meant to make women feel uncomfortable
WASHINGTON - Former Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday defended his interactions with women, saying he doesn't believe he's ever acted inappropriately. But a Nevada politician's assertion that Biden's...
Apr 01, 2019
UK Parliament gets new chance to offer options on Brexit
LONDON - Britain's Parliament gets another chance Monday to offer a way forward on Britain's stalled divorce from the European Union, holding a series of votes on Brexit alternatives in an attempt to ...
Apr 01, 2019
Hamas tightens grip on Gaza, fails to break Israel blockade
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Over the weekend, Gaza's Hamas rulers marked a year of bloody, weekly protests that have failed to break the Israeli blockade. Rocket attacks brought a wave of Israeli ai...
Apr 01, 2019
Venezuela's Maduro announces power rationing amid outages
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity following nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ig...
Apr 01, 2019
TSA's social media highlight weird stuff in travellers' bags
WASHINGTON - David Johnston stands over a table full of peculiar items confiscated at Dulles International Airport: a glittery clutch with brass knuckles as a clasp. A perfume bottle shaped like a gre...
Apr 01, 2019