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Human error or criminal negligence? Lac-Megantic criminal trial begins in Quebec
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Train driver Thomas Harding knows he’s partly at fault for the 2013 Lac-Megantic rail disaster that killed 47 people, but he was following procedure and the tragedy flowed fro...
Oct 02, 2017
Wrangling over classified information delays Lindhout hostage-taking trial
OTTAWA - A legal dispute about secret information is delaying the trial of a man accused of taking journalist Amanda Lindhout hostage in Somalia nine years ago. An Ontario Superior Court judge is slat...
Oct 02, 2017
Canadian singer at Seahawks game chooses to not join anthem protest
SEATTLE - A Vancouver woman invited to sing O Canada before a Seahawks game in Seattle decided to not take a knee after her performance. Arielle Tuliao had previously said that she planned to kneel af...
Oct 02, 2017
Feds 'never did the work' to understand Indigenous concerns on pipeline: lawyer
VANCOUVER - Canada’s decision to approve an expansion for the Trans Mountain pipeline was a “one-way street” that ignored the economic and title rights of Indigenous people, a lawyer...
Oct 02, 2017
Coyotes' Domi calls for stricter immigration controls after attack in Edmonton
Arizona Coyotes forward Max Domi called for stricter immigration controls on Sunday in the wake of a violent attack in Edmonton. Domi is the son of former NHL enforcer Tie Domi and was born in Winnipe...
Oct 02, 2017
Vatican No. 2 opens online abuse seminar amid child porn scandal involving senior diplomat
ROME - The Vatican’s secretary of state is headlining an international conference on protecting children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, weeks after he recalled one of his diplomats w...
Oct 02, 2017
Loan program blamed for leaving refugees in financial trouble to be reworked
OTTAWA - The Liberals are finally overhauling a program that provides loans to refugees to cover the cost of their resettlement to Canada, but they’re stopping short of demands the system be scr...
Oct 02, 2017
Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor who begged for more help
BRANCHBURG, N.J. - President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at the mayor of San Juan and other officials in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, contemptuous of their claims of a laggard U.S. response to t...
Sep 30, 2017
Spain, Catalonia head for showdown over independence vote
BARCELONA, Spain - Montserrat Aguilera wasn’t intending to vote for the Catalonia region to secede from the rest of Spain. But the 52-year-old laboratory worker changed her mind amid an unpreced...
Sep 30, 2017
Russian soldier who killed 3 comrades shot dead
MOSCOW - Officials in far east Russia say a soldier who opened fire at other servicemen during drills has been tracked down and killed. The military says the soldier, who killed three and wounded two ...
Sep 30, 2017