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Canada, California plan to work together to make cleaner cars, cut emissions
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna signed a vehicle-emissions agreement with California Wednesday that the state's governor and auto industry experts see as a signal that C...
Jun 28, 2019
Lizzo says security guard manhandled 2 staffers in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE - Singer-rapper Lizzo says a security guard tackled two members of her staff to the ground and used hurtful language just moments after her performance at Milwaukee's Summerfest. Lizzo late ...
Jun 28, 2019
US sanctions Maduro's son as it raises pressure on Venezuela
BOGOTA - The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a move to increase pressure on family members of top officials backing the socialis...
Jun 28, 2019
Chinook’s Edge Superintendent Sacher earns top marks from board review
The Chinook's Edge Board of Education says its recent internal evaluation of Superintendent Kurt Sacher came back with highly positive results."Kurt has worked hard over the last nine years to make th...
Jun 28, 2019
SNC-Lavalin opts for corruption trial before judge alone
MONTREAL - Lawyers representing SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. have opted for trial by judge alone in a corruption case that has loomed over the Montreal-based engineering giant. The company was ordered to st...
Jun 28, 2019
Local woman checks lottery ticket a month later, wins $2 million
Adrienne Cornish got a message she wasn't expecting when she scanned her WESTERN 649 ticket. She discovered she had won $2,000,000 on the May 11 draw.Cornish purchased her $4 WESTERN 649 quick pick ti...
Jun 28, 2019
Pride on display on 50th anniversary of Stonewall uprising
New York City is marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, days of unrest in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that began with a police raid on a gay bar and catalyzed a sustained LGTBQ libe...
Jun 28, 2019
Early Queen's Plate favourite Avie's Flatter draws outside post position
TORONTO - Jockey Javier Castellano will have to take Avie's Flatter the long way home to secure trainer Josie Carroll a third Queen's Plate title. The early 5/2 favourite was left with the N...
Jun 28, 2019
Always ticking: Canada's population clock shows demographic changes in real time
A Quebecer moves to the Northwest Territories, a family in Newfoundland and Labrador welcomes a new arrival, another in British Columbia mourns a loss, an immigrant settles somewhere in Onta...
Jun 28, 2019
Canadian trash from Philippines set to arrive in Vancouver Saturday
OTTAWA - Containers of Canadian trash that festered in the Philippines for years are set to arrive home just in time to celebrate the country's 152nd birthday. The Anna Maersk is scheduled t...
Jun 28, 2019