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Ontario fire marshal to conduct tests after 'flame-jetting' injuries and death
TORONTO - The Ontario fire marshal’s office says it will conduct tests this fall to better understand how hand-held fuel containers could ignite and inadvertently become flame-throwers when used...
Jul 28, 2018
Guy Turcotte won't appeal earlier decision on parole eligibility, lawyer says
MONTREAL - Guy Turcotte’s lawyer says his client will not pursue a bid to reduce the minimum number of years he must serve in prison for murdering his two young children. Pierre Poupart says Tur...
Jul 28, 2018
Funeral held for last 5 of 9 relatives killed in sinking
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana family that lost nine relatives in the sinking of a duck boat on a Missouri lake was held up as an inspiration Saturday as hundreds of people gathered in their memory. Gov. E...
Jul 28, 2018
Doug Ford's approach to Toronto council dismays Hamilton mayor
TORONTO - A unilateral decision by Premier Doug Ford to slash the size of Toronto’s city council in half has dismayed at least one other big city mayor in Ontario. In an interview from Hamilton,...
Jul 28, 2018
Not cuts: Manitoba Liberal leader believes government stimulus needed
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont says he intends to fight the Progressive Conservative government’s cost-cutting agenda and push for public spending to stimulate the economy and...
Jul 28, 2018
Black man accuses Sean Spicer of hurling racial slur at him
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ...
Jul 28, 2018
Injury ends runner Dave Proctor's cross-Canada speed attempt in Manitoba
Dave Proctor’s quest to set a speed record running across Canada is over because of a debilitating back injury. The 37-year-old from Okotoks, Alta., who is raising money for rare disease researc...
Jul 28, 2018
Pakistan: Khan's party says it got the support to form gov't
ISLAMABAD - The party of cricket star Imran Khan on Saturday claimed it had acquired the support of the lawmakers required to form a coalition government after winning this week’s polls, as a se...
Jul 28, 2018
Pope accepts resignation of McCarrick after sex abuse claims
VATICAN CITY - In a move seen as unprecedented, Pope Francis has effectively stripped U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick of his cardinal’s title following allegations of sexual abuse, including one...
Jul 28, 2018
Egypt court sentences 75 to death over 2013 sit-in
CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death on Saturday, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in, state media reported. The Ca...
Jul 28, 2018