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Former Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan joins NHL front office
NEW YORK - Former Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan has joined the NHL’s hockey operations department, the league announced Friday. Doan will work with senior executive vice-president of hockey...
Oct 26, 2017
New child-soldier plan expected at Vancouver peacekeeping summit
OTTAWA - Canada has been quietly championing an initiative aimed at preventing the recruitment and use of child soldiers, which is expected to be unveiled at a major peacekeeping summit in Vancouver n...
Oct 26, 2017
Only one in 10 substantiated sex assaults result in conviction, StatCan says
The vast majority of sexual assaults that have been substantiated by police do not result in a criminal conviction or even make it to court, Statistics Canada said Thursday. New research from the agen...
Oct 26, 2017
From top cop to politician, who is Quebec legislature member Guy Ouellette?
MONTREAL - From policing to politics, much of Guy Ouellette’s career has been spent in the public eye. During Quebec’s biker gang wars of the 1990s, the outspoken provincial police sergean...
Oct 26, 2017
Abandoned, sunken ship in B.C. underscores need for updated law: MP
LADYSMITH, B.C. - A New Democrat member of Parliament from British Columbia is criticizing the federal government for failing to act quickly enough to deal with derelict vessels. The complaints come d...
Oct 26, 2017
Trudeau's new feminist foreign policy welcomed by new women envoys
OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s new feminist foreign policy could help it break new ground in international affairs when it assumes the G7 presidency next year, says Germany’s ambassador...
Oct 26, 2017
Former Obama White House official sees glimmers of optimism in Trump's America
CALGARY - A former official in the Obama White House says she has seen glimmers of optimism even as U.S. President Donald Trump dismantles much of his predecessor’s legacy. Tina Tchen was specia...
Oct 26, 2017
Celtics ready for football semi-finals
The St. Joe's Celtics are undefeated this year, but coach Trevor Prichard still wants to keep egos in check for the semi-finals Saturday. "We have had a strong season, and the boys have worked really ...
Oct 26, 2017
Twitter to ban ads from Russia's RT, Sputnik
NEW YORK - Twitter says it will ban ads from RT and Sputnik, two state-sponsored Russian news outlets that the U.S. intelligence community has said tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential e...
Oct 26, 2017
Activist-vandal dyes water of Rome's Trevi Fountain red
ROME - An Italian activist poured red dye into the Trevi Fountain on Thursday - 10 years after he pulled the same stunt vandalizing one of Rome’s most famous monuments. Graziano Cecchini insiste...
Oct 26, 2017