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3 Asian nations warn citizens not to use marijuana in Canada
BEIJING - Marijuana may be legal now in Canada but at least three Asian governments are warning their citizens to avoid it, including the spectre of possible arrest for Japanese and South Koreans. Chi...
Oct 30, 2018
Suspect charged with killing Red Deer woman at work camp pleads not guilty
GRANDE PRAIRIE- The man charged following a double murder in northwest Alberta almost three years ago has pleaded not guilty to all six charges by reason of mental disorder. A judge-alone trial is und...
Oct 30, 2018
Trump targets citizenship, stokes pre-election migrant fears
WASHINGTON - Thousands of U.S. troops to stop an “invasion” of migrants. Tent cities for asylum seekers. An end for the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. With his e...
Oct 30, 2018
Halifax council takes first step toward stadium for potential new CFL team
Halifax council has voted to take a closer look at a proposed 24,000-seat stadium, the pivotal component of a bid to land a Canadian Football League team for the East Coast’s largest city. In a ...
Oct 30, 2018
Actress accuses Geoffrey Rush of touching her breast
SYDNEY, Australia - The actress at the centre of Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s defamation trial told a Sydney court on Tuesday that he deliberately touched the side of her breast in a Shak...
Oct 30, 2018
Montreal hit with rotating Canada Post strike; 6,000 workers walk off job
MONTREAL - About 6,000 Canada Post employees in Montreal have walked off the job, along with postal workers in several other cities as ongoing rotating strikes continue across the country. The Canadia...
Oct 30, 2018
CARTOON 10-30-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 10-30-2018
Oct 30, 2018
Sarah Henstra wins Governor General's fiction prize for book on campus politics
OTTAWA - Toronto author Sarah Henstra says she thinks her win at this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction signals that Canadian readers are hungry for lit...
Oct 30, 2018
In the news today, Oct. 30
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 30 --- FEDS REWORK APOLOGY FOR HOLOCAUST INCIDENT The killings of 11 worshippers inside a Pittsburgh synagogue on the weekend has reframed the prime minister...
Oct 30, 2018
Air Canada, WestJet latest companies to cut ties to SeaWorld ahead of whale bill
Air Canada and WestJet Airlines Ltd. are joining a growing wave of companies that have cut ties to SeaWorld, in sync with the spirit of a bill to ban whale and dolphin captivity and in the wake of con...
Oct 30, 2018