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MEGlobal selects eight local non-profits for project funding
PRENTISS - Eight local non-profit organizations are getting a boost through funding from the 2019 MEGlobal Canada Community Contributions Program.More than $36,000 was allocated for projects ranging f...
Aug 09, 2019
Canadian wage growth climbs to highest mark since 2009, but economy sheds jobs
OTTAWA - Canada lost 24,200 jobs last month and its unemployment rate moved up to 5.7 per cent to give the economy its weakest three-month stretch of job creation since early 2018. On the po...
Aug 09, 2019
US wholesale prices rise just 0.2% in July
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices ticked up just 0.2% in July, the latest sign that inflationary pressures are largely in check. The Labor Department said Friday that the producer price index - which...
Aug 09, 2019
Richard Gere visits migrants stuck at sea in Mediterranean
Actor Richard Gere is visiting rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship that has been stuck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week. The Hollywood star took food and supplies by boat Friday to 1...
Aug 09, 2019
UK economy shrinks by 0.2% in second quarter
LONDON - Official figures show that the British economy shrank by a quarterly rate of 0.2% in the second quarter of the year. The decline reported Friday by the Office for National Statistics was unex...
Aug 09, 2019
In the news today, August 7
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, August 7 --- RCMP FIND ITEMS LINKED TO MURDER SUSPECTS RCMP in Manitoba have found several items linked to two suspects wanted for killings in Br...
Aug 09, 2019
In the news today, August 9
Four stories in the news for Friday, August 9 --- COMMUNITY SEARCHES FOR ANSWERS AFTER MANHUNT ENDS The residents of Gillam, Manitoba are grappling with questions about how a massive manhunt...
Aug 09, 2019
Taliban suicide blast in Kabul kills 14 people, 145 wounded
KABUL - A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighbourhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 - most of them women, children and other civilians...
Aug 09, 2019
Casting director David Rubin elected film academy president
LOS ANGELES - Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. He is the first casting dire...
Aug 09, 2019
China bans movies, actors from prominent Taiwan film awards
BEIJING - China said Wednesday that it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry's most prestigious honours, as Beijing r...
Aug 08, 2019