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Google bows to worker pressure on sexual misconduct policy
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after thousands of high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its ...
Nov 08, 2018
EU envoy says 'much more work' needed to clinch Brexit deal
HELSINKI - The European Union’s Brexit negotiator on Thursday said that gaps remain to be bridged in talks on the U.K.’s departure from the bloc as time runs out to secure a deal and have ...
Nov 08, 2018
Court deals blow to Helmut Oberlander, 94; lifts stay on loss of citizenship
TORONTO - An elderly man has lost a key battle in his fight to stave off deportation for lying to Canadian immigration authorities about his Second World War activities with a Nazi death squad. In a r...
Nov 08, 2018
Inappropriate comments stem from outdated sense of humour: Manitoba politician
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba legislature member who was booted from the governing Progressive Conservative caucus over inappropriate remarks said Thursday he is not a sexual harasser, but later admitted some...
Nov 08, 2018
McClintic back in prison after time in healing lodge, Tori Stafford's father says
A convicted child killer who became the subject of national outrage when it was learned she’d been transferred to an Indigenous healing lodge is back in prison, the father of her young victim sa...
Nov 08, 2018
Housing starts continue to lag in Red Deer
The cooling trend when it comes to housing starts in Red Deer continues, according to the latest numbers from Canada Mortgage and Housing. CMHC says Red Deer saw 13 housing starts last month, down fro...
Nov 08, 2018
Duplicating Edison’s Iconic Invention For Light’s Golden Jubilee
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Light's Golden Jubilee As early as 1761, Ebenezer Kinnersley demonstrated the possibility of wire being heated to incandescence. Humphry Davy used a giant ...
Nov 08, 2018
The Only Man To Be Buried On the Moon (So Far)
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Man In The Moon Believe it or not, one man is buried on the Moon. His name is Eugene Shoemaker, and he pioneered planetary science. Since time immemori...
Nov 08, 2018
Masoli, Mitchell named as finalists for CFL's outstanding player award
TORONTO - As the individual accolades pile up for Jeremiah Masoli, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback is quick to give credit to those who help make him look good. Masoli was named the East Division ...
Nov 08, 2018
Ottawa plans to give climate funds directly to Ontario institutions, businesses
MILTON, Ont. - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government plans to disburse money from a climate fund directly to Ontario institutions and businesses after the provincial gover...
Nov 08, 2018