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Scheer claims a Liberal-NDP coalition government will hike the GST
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is demanding Liberals "have the guts" to explain what taxes will be raised to secure NDP support in a coalition government. Scheer is campaigning in Frederic...
Oct 18, 2019
Scheer takes campaign full circle, refocuses on Trudeau's ethical record
HAMILTON - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledged Wednesday to impose massive fines on politicians who break Canada's ethics laws as he took his campaign message back to its basic proposition:...
Oct 18, 2019
Film academy honours 16 Student Academy Award winners
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "I'd like to thank the academy" is a phrase many only ever get to say in front of their bathroom mirrors. But 16 student filmmakers actually got to utter those words on stage T...
Oct 18, 2019
Chicago teachers to strike in nation's 3rd largest district
Chicago parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for a massive teachers' strike set to begin Thursday, prompting the city to preemptively cancel classes in the nation's third-largest sch...
Oct 18, 2019
Public tips lead to arrest
PENHOLD- On October the 8 at 9:43 a.m., Innisfail RCMP received a report of a shed being broken into at the Innisfail Public Library and some items were taken. Later that day someone staying at the Da...
Oct 18, 2019
Alleged sex assault victim to file lawsuit against Toronto private school
TORONTO - A former student of an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto alleges in court documents that the bullying and sexual assault he suffered at the hands of his schoolmate...
Oct 18, 2019
Kim Kardashian urges clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate
OKLAHOMA CITY - Kim Kardashian West has joined a chorus of voices calling for clemency for a black man on Oklahoma's death row who has exhausted his appeals, arguing that a racist juror tainted the ou...
Oct 18, 2019
'The Casagrandes' extols Mexican American life via animation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nickelodeon's "The Casagrandes" premiered this week and became one of the first cartoons in U.S. history to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long awaited sp...
Oct 18, 2019
Drayton Valley RCMP Report: Oct. 10-17
October 105:06 pm - Drayton Valley - 44 Avenue - Complainant reported that someone was getting shot at. Female began yelling and screaming at call taker and refused to provide address. Member located ...
Oct 18, 2019
Most overrated? Mattis laughs off Trump barb at charity gala
NEW YORK - Former U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump. Speaking at a New York charity event Thursday the day after Trump demeaned him ...
Oct 18, 2019