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Scotiabank-owned Tangerine to become official bank of Toronto Raptors
TORONTO - Tangerine is set to become the official and exclusive bank of the Toronto Raptors in July in the latest sports-related marketing play by parent company Scotiabank. The partnership announced ...
Jan 31, 2018
Halifax removes contentious statue of port city's founder, Edward Cornwallis
HALIFAX - Isaiah Bernard always avoided driving by a statue of Halifax’s controversial military founder. For him, it was an obtrusive reminder of Edward Cornwallis’s bloody and barbaric ex...
Jan 31, 2018
Magnitude 6.1 quake rattles Afghanistan and Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday, including the capital cities of both countries, killing a young girl and injuring 15 others, officials said...
Jan 31, 2018
Civilians pay price as Turkey battles Syrian Kurds
ANKARA, Turkey - Rockets fired from northern Syria into a Turkish border town killed a teenage girl and wounded another person on Wednesday, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported, in the lates...
Jan 31, 2018
South Africa's president under growing pressure to leave
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s deputy president is acting more like a president these days, while talk surrounding his scandal-tainted boss is about how and when he would quit. That makes for awk...
Jan 31, 2018
AI in the court: When algorithms rule on jail time
CLEVELAND - The centuries-old process of releasing defendants on bail, long the province of judicial discretion, is getting a major assist … courtesy of artificial intelligence. In late August, ...
Jan 31, 2018
Federal transgender inmates to be housed, addressed according to gender identity
OTTAWA - The federal prison system is changing the way it treats transgender inmates, who will now be placed in a men’s or women’s facility based on how they self-identify. Correctional st...
Jan 31, 2018
Confidentiality an issue in whether to release Hehr report; Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says confidentiality will be a factor in deciding whether to release the findings of an investigation into allegations of misconduct levelled against Liberal MP ...
Jan 31, 2018
Scheer: Tories to launch independent investigation of Dykstra controversy
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promised an independent, third-party investigation of the Rick Dykstra controversy Wednesday as his own caucus members wondered aloud how the Ontario MP was ...
Jan 31, 2018
Lunar showstopper: Super blue blood moon awes and wows
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright. It’s the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a...
Jan 31, 2018