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'It's not about popularity:' Trudeau, Macron meet in Paris amid lagging polls
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such fears and dismis...
Jun 07, 2019
Cabinet docs detail Mulroney challenges on China after Tiananmen Square massacre
OTTAWA - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark didn't try to sugarcoat it for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and their cabinet colleagues. Over the previous 48 hours, stunned disbelief had sunk in across...
Jun 07, 2019
Drayton Valley weekly RCMP report May 30-June 6
May 308:54 a.m. - Brazeau County - Complainant reporting approximately 20 metres of phone cable stolen from Telus site. 9:11 a.m. - Drayton Valley - Wal Mart - Complainant reporting a hit and run to t...
Jun 07, 2019
AMC to rethink Georgia filming if abortion law takes effect
ATLANTA - The network behind a show that's become part of Georgia's pop-culture fiber says it will "reevaluate" its activity in the state if a new abortion law goes into effect. "The Walking Dead" is ...
Jun 07, 2019
Trump honours D-Day vets, discusses Vietnam deferment
PORTSMOUTH, England - President Donald Trump on Wednesday joined world leaders to praise alliances and military service ahead of the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, just hours after offering no reg...
Jun 07, 2019
French beaches at dawn set scene for solemn D-Day observance
OMAHA BEACH, France - The five beaches are silent at dawn but forever haunted. When the sun rises Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled and died 75 years ago, the diminishin...
Jun 07, 2019
Kenney promises constitutional challenge if Bill C-48 is passed
EDMONTON- Premier Jason Kenney says he is deeply disappointed the Senate has voted not to kill the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic in the environmentally sensitive waters off north...
Jun 07, 2019
Survey: Companies add fewest jobs in 9 years in May
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in nine years, a private survey found, as manufacturers, construction firms and mining companies cut workers. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday tha...
Jun 07, 2019
Filibustered minimum wage cut bill passes second reading
EDMONTON- The marathon debate over the Kenney government's plan to cut the minimum wage for young people and change rules on calculating overtime pay is over, at least for now.The legislature has pass...
Jun 07, 2019
Spike Lee calls for Hollywood to 'shut it down' in Georgia
LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. Most stu...
Jun 07, 2019