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'I love this country:' Brazilian cowboy nears end of epic horse ride in Calgary
WAIPAROUS VILLAGE, Alta. - Filipe Masetti Leite stops for a break from another long day in the saddle on his year-long trek encountering bugs, bears, buffalo and bad weather. The Brazil...
Jul 01, 2020

US construction spending fell 2.1% in May
WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending fell 2.1% in May with both home building and nonresidential activity declining. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday the May decline followed an even large...
Jul 01, 2020

Province invests $27.8 million investment to Lethbridge's Exhibition Park
LETHBRIDGE, AB- Jason Kenney's visit to Lethbridge on Tuesday brought good news for the city as the premier announced a major investment in the revitalization of Lethbridge's Exhibition Park. $27.8 mi...
Jul 01, 2020

Citing racial bias, San Francisco will end mug shots release
San Francisco police will stop making public the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes, the c...
Jul 01, 2020

France freezes role in NATO naval force amid Turkey tensions
PARIS - France announced Wednesday that it is suspending its involvement in a NATO naval operation in the Mediterranean Sea after a standoff with a Turkish warship, amid growing tensions within the mi...
Jul 01, 2020

Turkey: Up to 60 migrants feared dead in lake after sinking
ANKARA, Turkey - Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey's interior minister said Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involv...
Jul 01, 2020

Retired pope's elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, dies at 96
BERLIN - The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys' choir, has died at 96. The Regensburg ...
Jul 01, 2020

UK: China's new security law violates Hong Kong agreement
LONDON - Britain's foreign secretary said Wednesday China's new national security law for Hong Kong "is a clear and serious violation" of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the agreement that paved t...
Jul 01, 2020

N.B. anti-racism activist among those receiving Canada Day honours from GG
OTTAWA - Ralph Thomas can't recall any specific incidents of racism against him while growing up as a Black person in New Brunswick in the 1940s and '50s, but says that was more about t...
Jul 01, 2020

Virtual Canada Day citizenship ceremony celebrates nurses, care workers
OTTAWA - Nineteen people from 13 different countries will become new Canadian citizens today in a special Canada Day ceremony. The virtual ceremony takes place this afternoon and will bring together p...
Jul 01, 2020