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CARTOON 06-18-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 06-18-2018
Jun 18, 2018
Audi CEO detained in diesel emissions case
BERLIN - German authorities on Monday detained the chief executive of Volkswagen’s Audi division, Rupert Stadler, as part of a probe into the manipulation of emissions controls. The move is an e...
Jun 18, 2018
Liberals need to go in order to clean up Quebec politics: corruption whistleblower
MONTREAL - The Liberals must be defeated in October’s election in order to properly clean up Quebec politics, says a former star witness in the province’s corruption inquiry. Most of the p...
Jun 18, 2018
Collection featuring Group of Seven paintings donated to University of Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess spent a lifetime following her passion. A lifelong educator and art collector, the Order of Canada recipient bequeathed a collection worth as much as...
Jun 18, 2018
Indigenous protesters in Washington declare Trans Mountain won't be built
VANCOUVER - Cedar George-Parker remembers the moment he decided to devote his life to defending Indigenous people and their traditional territories. It was the one-year anniversary of a shooting at hi...
Jun 18, 2018
In the news today, June 18
Four stories in the news for Monday, June 18 --- REPORT DETAILS CHILD POVERTY IN ALL FEDERAL RIDINGS Forty per cent of the children in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s downtown Toronto riding liv...
Jun 18, 2018
Spanish king's brother-in-law begins prison term for graft
MADRID - The brother-in-law of Spain’s King Felipe VI has begun serving a nearly six-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, Spanish prison authorities said Monday. An official with the Interio...
Jun 18, 2018
Windstorm's bright side on display at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary
The windstorm of June 20, 2017 wasn't entirely a bad thing. Sure, it did knock out power to many parts of the city for several days, and it's costing the municipality millions of dollars to clean up, ...
Jun 17, 2018
A look at the federal ridings with the highest, and lowest child poverty rates
OTTAWA - A national anti-poverty group has broken down the child poverty rates in each of the 338 federal ridings. Below are the 10 ridings with the highest, and lowest child poverty rates in the coun...
Jun 17, 2018
Liberals pressed on anti-poverty plan as report details child poverty rates
OTTAWA - Anti-poverty groups are raising the stakes on the Liberal government’s promise to reduce the prevalence of low-income families by detailing child poverty rates in all 338 federal riding...
Jun 17, 2018