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CARTOON 02-13-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-13-2018
Feb 13, 2018
Plant dines during the midnight sun where the hot food flows
RALEIGH, N.C. - Babe, I’m gonna feed you, one top North Carolina eatery reassured Led Zeppelin’s famished frontman. The News & Observer reports that Robert Plant and his backing band, ...
Feb 13, 2018
Nunavut project to collect Inuit elder testimony on Franklin shipwreck sites
OTTAWA - Parks Canada is launching a new initiative in Nunavut to collect and share the testimony of Inuit elders who have knowledge of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. The project is seeking a...
Feb 13, 2018
Erdogan warns Greece, Cyprus over gas search, Aegean islets
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a warning Tuesday to neighbouring Greece, Cyprus and international companies exploring for gas in the eastern Mediterranean not to “...
Feb 13, 2018
In the news today, Feb. 13
Eight stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 13 --- NOTLEY GIVES FEDS DAYS TO RESOLVE PIPELINE SPAT Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress within days from Ottawa in resolving a pipeline...
Feb 13, 2018
Tougher laws needed, MMIW inquiry told: 'These monsters keep getting let out'
MONCTON, N.B. - The mother of a 16-year-old Aboriginal girl murdered in northern New Brunswick made an emotional plea Tuesday to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Gir...
Feb 13, 2018
Iran calls prof's death in prison a suicide; take a harder line, Frum urges feds
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator is calling out the federal Liberal government for its anodyne response to reports that an Iranian-Canadian university professor has died while in custody in Iran. The s...
Feb 13, 2018
B.C. government throne speech puts focus on housing, child care, affordability
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan introduced a plan Tuesday to make life in British Columbia more affordable, but it was overshadowed by the unfolding dispute with the Alberta and federal governments ove...
Feb 13, 2018
Feds to table budget Feb. 27 as Canada faces trade, competitiveness uncertainty
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government’s next budget on Feb. 27 as the country faces persistent uncertainty around trade and competitiveness. With the futur...
Feb 13, 2018
Gasoline Alley business owners unite to fight crime
Gasoline Alley businesses are banding together in an effort to rid themselves of the pestilence that is rural crime. Fifteen businesses on the west side of the QEII, from Turple Bros at the north end ...
Feb 12, 2018