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Report: IS leader may be in eastern Syrian city of Boukamal
BEIRUT - A media outlet linked to the Syrian military said Friday that the Islamic State group’s leader may be holed up in an IS pocket in the eastern town of Boukamal, which government forces a...
Nov 10, 2017
Seven stories in the news for today, Nov. 10
Seven stories in the news for Friday, Nov. 10 --- PM TRUDEAU HOLDS BILATERAL TALKS AT APEC SUMMIT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held bilateral meetings today with the president of Mexico and the prime...
Nov 10, 2017
Chinese-Canadian veterans fought in secret WWII unit and helped changed laws
VANCOUVER - Giant monkeys in the jungle are what Ronald Lee remembers most about his Second World War “adventure” in Burma as part of a dangerous and secret British-led operation. “T...
Nov 10, 2017
Out of the shadows: Canada's special forces face unique mental-health challenges
OTTAWA - Retired Sgt. Toby Miller can easily remember the day he was injured by an improvised-explosive device in Afghanistan. It was April 2, 2011 - his 41st birthday, and the beginning of the end of...
Nov 10, 2017
Man remembers slain officer as an 'incredible person' after he was pulled over
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Warren Banks was driving home on Halloween wearing his costume - a brown cultist robe - when he was pulled over by a police officer in Abbotsford, B.C. It led to an encounter Banks ...
Nov 10, 2017
Orphan Well Association spending tops $2 million on care of Lexin assets
CALGARY - The cost of looking after hundreds of wells, pipelines and other oilfield gear left behind by bankrupt Lexin Resources Ltd. has exceeded $2 million and the bills continue to roll in, says Al...
Nov 10, 2017
'We were sitting ducks':100-year-old war veteran shares memories of Dieppe
MONTREAL - At age 100, Honorary Col. David Lloyd Hart still remembers every detail of the bloody and chaotic scene on the beach during the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe in 1942. Hart, a communicatio...
Nov 10, 2017
Washington's No. 1 economic priority is tax cuts, not NAFTA
WASHINGTON - A U.S. lawmaker dropped a remark this week that illustrated how NAFTA is not the No. 1 economic priority in Washington these days, obscured by another paramount prerogative. That issue is...
Nov 10, 2017
Shining purple lights on domestic violence
Central Alberta is once again one of the growing number of communities and regions throughout the world this month, trying to raise awareness of domestic violence issues, its effect on children and fa...
Nov 10, 2017
Egypt's IS affiliate kills 10 people in Sinai convoy attack
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Militants from an Islamic State affiliate ambushed a convoy of cement trucks late Thursday from an army factory in the central Sinai Peninsula, killing eight civilian employees and t...
Nov 10, 2017