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Canada's housing sector faces high degree of instability for eighth quarter: CMHC
TORONTO - The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the country’s housing sector is facing a high degree of vulnerability to market instability for the eighth straight quarter. The Crown ...
Jul 26, 2018
Nova Scotia defends controversial plan to sell cannabis in liquor stores
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is defending its unique cannabis retail scheme that will sell weed in existing liquor stores amid criticisms the arrangement poses a public health risk. A Halifax psychology prof...
Jul 26, 2018
Canada must be held accountable in Indigenous decisions: minister to chiefs
VANCOUVER - The federal government must “get out of the way” of First Nations in their efforts to bring about self-determination by ditching failed colonial policies and working with Abori...
Jul 26, 2018
The government's solution to benefits service issues? Artificial intelligence
OTTAWA - Federal officials overseeing billions in benefit payments to millions of Canadians are hoping artificial intelligence can resolve ongoing snags in the system. The government is looking to ...
Jul 26, 2018
Conservative Jim Jordan's speaker run boosts Trump allies
WASHINGTON - Hard-hitting Rep. Jim Jordan launched his long-shot bid Thursday to become the next House speaker, saying Congress isn’t doing enough to back President Donald Trump and positioning ...
Jul 26, 2018
Former schoolboy basketball star dies in car crash
LOWELL, Mass. - The victim of a fatal car crash in Massachusetts is being remembered as the best basketball player ever to come out of his home town. Prosecutors say 52-year-old Ramon “ChungR...
Jul 26, 2018
Ontario formally requests $200 million from feds to deal with asylum seekers
OTTAWA - The Ontario government has formally requested $200 million from the federal government to cover costs associated with asylum seekers from the United States. Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s mini...
Jul 26, 2018
Coming out of its shell: Owner IDs tortoise found roaming Edmonton streets
EDMONTON - There was no sign of a hare when an 11-kilogram tortoise was found roaming free in Edmonton before he was eventually identified by its owner. The Animal Care and Control Centre says the tor...
Jul 26, 2018
Trial likely by year's end for U.S. man in Alberta model's alleged kidnapping
GREENVILLE, United States - A South Carolina man charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct after an Alberta woman was lured to the United States with the promise of a modelling job is expect...
Jul 26, 2018
High court to settle dispute over missing professor's pension payments
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether an Ottawa university can reclaim almost $500,000 in pension payments to a professor who went missing before being found dead in the woods near ...
Jul 26, 2018