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Safe air, clean water: Canadian climate strike protesters have demands
Thousands of Canadians hit the streets Friday demanding change to stop the effects of climate change. Canadians joined people all over the world in demonstrations sparked by 16-year-old Swed...
Sep 27, 2019

Liberals allege gun group's election ads break law, ask for investigation
OTTAWA - The Liberals have filed a complaint about advertising by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association during the federal election campaign. Liberal candidate Adam Vaughan wrote Wednesda...
Sep 27, 2019

Balmain channels 90s, Miyake debuts new designer in Paris
PARIS - Balmain defied the trends in designer Olivier Rousteing's rebellious ode to the 90s, serving up an infectious soundtrack of nostalgia that had Kris Jenner and Eva Longoria tapping their feet. ...
Sep 27, 2019

Kenney says restraint coming, but not Klein-era budget cuts
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says there will be spending restraint in the upcoming budget but it won't resemble the fiscal bloodletting of the early 1990s.The United Conservative leader, in...
Sep 27, 2019

Alberta municipalities support Red Deer's call for more provincial help with needle debris
The City of Red Deer used this week's Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) Conference in Edmonton to bring attention to the province's drug crisis.The City put forward a resolution calling ...
Sep 27, 2019 (paNOW file photo)

Reggaeton acts call out Latin Grammys for lack of noms
NEW YORK - Popular Latin performers such as J Balvin, Daddy Yankee and Maluma are lashing out at the Latin Grammys for dismissing musicians from the reggaeton and Latin trap world in the top categorie...
Sep 27, 2019

City to pay Stormy Daniels $450,000 over strip club arrest
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's capital city agreed Friday to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over her arrest at a strip club last year, the latest fallout traced to the city's no...
Sep 27, 2019

At UN, Africa balances highlighting its progress and poverty
At the U.N. building in New York, "United Nations" means the trappings of protocol, the gravitas of diplomatic relations, the grandiose speeches. But in the field, to many, the "United Nations" means ...
Sep 27, 2019

Democrats call whistleblower complaint 'deeply disturbing'
WASHINGTON - Democrats who reviewed a secret whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump Wednesday called it "deeply disturbing" and said it gives them new leads to pursue as they conside...
Sep 27, 2019

Wally Lamb barred from prison to resume writing program
NIANTIC, Conn. - Author Wally Lamb says he was barred from entering a Connecticut women's prison to resume a writing program that had been reinstated after an investigation that cleared him of wrongdo...
Sep 27, 2019