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Malta's people and media take up slain reporter's message
VALLETTA, Malta - Several thousand Maltese citizens rallied Sunday to honour an investigative journalist killed by a car bomb, but the prime minister and opposition leader who were chief targets of Da...
Oct 22, 2017
Girl goes on mission to find owner of missing $2
PEQUANNOCK, N.J. - A young girl in New Jersey who hoped to return two dollar bills she found on a sidewalk to their rightful owner will use the money to donate a box of Girl Scout nuts to the military...
Oct 22, 2017
Mother of Canadian man missing in Peru since September says he may have been abducted
A Canadian woman who is searching for her missing son in Peru says that authorities in the country are considering the possibility that her son was abducted. Alisa Clamen, a Montreal resident, said he...
Oct 22, 2017
Residents forced from homes due to ammonia leak in Fernie, B.C. allowed to return
FERNIE, B.C. - Nearly 100 people forced from their homes by a deadly ammonia leak at an ice rink in Fernie, B.C., have been allowed to return. Fernie fire Chief Ted Ruiter said on Sunday that lab test...
Oct 22, 2017
FBI agent who helped Canada nab railway terror plotters has one big regret
OTTAWA - An undercover FBI agent who helped convict two men of plotting to derail a passenger train in Canada did not see the arrests as a triumph, because he feared another extremist had eluded his g...
Oct 22, 2017
Merseyslide: Liverpool, Everton fall to north London clubs
LONDON - Final score: North London 9, Merseyside 3. Liverpool and Everton endured a miserable Sunday in the Premier League as they were torn apart by Tottenham and Arsenal. Arsenal had five different ...
Oct 22, 2017
New Brunswick opposition parties scramble amid election speculation
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s opposition parties spent the weekend scrambling to prepare for a possible early election call after Premier Brian Gallant’s office announced he would meet wit...
Oct 22, 2017
Saskatchewan RCMP shoot and kill man in North Battleford
REGINA - RCMP in Saskatchewan say they shot and killed a man in North Battleford after a chase that police say ended with the suspect’s vehicle ramming a police cruiser. Police say it started wh...
Oct 22, 2017
At mid-mandate and with extra cash, Liberals to chart fiscal course toward 2019
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government, right at the midpoint of its mandate, will map out its financial path this week and announce new measures as it enters the two-year stretch toward the next election. T...
Oct 22, 2017
Right whale researchers meet in Halifax to sound alarm about species decline
HALIFAX - Their names were Glacier, Starboard and Peanut. The colourfully named mammals were among 15 North Atlantic right whales who died off the coast of Canada and the U.S. in recent months. To the...
Oct 22, 2017