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NDP's Malcolmson seeks secret ballot vote of MPs to save bill on abandoned boats
OTTAWA - In a show of backbencher strength, NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson could become the first MP in history to force her colleagues in the House of Commons into a secret ballot to save a piece of legisl...
Nov 20, 2017
McKenna says amendment signed to Montreal Protocol
MONTREAL - An amendment to the Montreal Protocol has been signed that will lower the levels of a type of greenhouse gas that warms the planet even more quickly than carbon dioxide, Environment Ministe...
Nov 20, 2017
Tuition refunds offered to students as Ontario college strike ends
TORONTO - Half a million Ontario college students have the option of walking away from a now-condensed fall semester with a full tuition refund in the aftermath of a five-week-long faculty strike. Stu...
Nov 20, 2017
Nebraska approves alternative route for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline
CALGARY - Nebraska regulators approved passage of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline Monday, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle for the controversial $10-billion project but creating a ne...
Nov 20, 2017
Tie new affordable housing money to outcomes, former watchdog tells Liberals
OTTAWA - Parliament’s first budget watchdog is warning the federal government to be careful how it spends billions in new housing money over the next decade to ensure it actually makes a lasting...
Nov 20, 2017
Tap young talent on looming security issues, Google executive urges
HALIFAX - One of the world’s top technology executives is urging democratic countries to turn to youth in a bid to find innovative solutions to looming security problems. Eric Schmidt, executive...
Nov 20, 2017
Women dominate American Music Awards, but not as nominees
This year’s American Music Awards was a reflection of the year in pop music, with women dominating the show, but not as nominees or winners. In categories like artist of the year and favourite p...
Nov 20, 2017
Bounty offered for beheadings of Bollywood director, actress
NEW DELHI - A member of India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party offered 100 million rupees ($1.5 million) to anyone who beheads the lead actress and the director of an unreleased Bollywood film &...
Nov 20, 2017
World Cup bribes, death threats: Corrupt world of FIFA
Hour after hour in a New York City courtroom, the schemes to corrupt world soccer are spilling out. The millions of dollars in “inducements” to secure contracts to televise matches. The br...
Nov 20, 2017
Charles Manson used charm to turn youths into mass killers
LOS ANGELES - In summer 1969, a scruffy ex-convict with a magnetic hold on young women sent some of his disciples into the night to carry out a series of gruesome killings in Los Angeles. In so doing,...
Nov 19, 2017