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Toronto-born Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter leaving magazine
Toronto-born Graydon Carter is leaving Vanity Fair after 25 years as the magazine’s editor. In an article on its website, accompanied by a portrait from famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, Vanit...
Sep 07, 2017
Toronto councillor apologizes for saying city planner 'should stick to the knitting'
Toronto’s deputy mayor is apologizing for comments he made about the city’s outgoing chief planner after backlash from critics who called his words sexist. Denzil Minnan-Wong told the Toro...
Sep 07, 2017
Worried neighbours seek answers as sinkhole swallows Nova Scotia home
FALMOUTH, N.S. - People living near a Nova Scotia home being swallowed by a large sinkhole say they are feeling jittery as they await answers on why the ground opened up - and whether other houses mig...
Sep 07, 2017
PM to meet first ministers, Indigenous leaders Oct. 3
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will convene a first ministers conference, including a meeting with national Indigenous leaders, on Oct. 3. The Prime Minister’s Office says the ec...
Sep 07, 2017
Baloney Meter: Will Scheer's ideas to stop asylum seekers at the border work?
OTTAWA - “It would have a practical consequence on dealing with the problem as it happens. It would also send that much-needed signal to all those in the United States who think that they can ju...
Sep 07, 2017
Conservative caucus debates strategy for fall, but also their own policies
WINNIPEG - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledged Thursday that when Parliament resumes later this month he’ll hammer the Liberals on three of the hot button issues of the summer: taxes, asyl...
Sep 07, 2017
Teenage cyclist hit by SUV in east Red Deer
RED DEER – RCMP responded this morning to a collision involving a bicycle and an SUV at the intersection of Davison Drive and 50 (Ross) Street. Police say a 16-year-old boy was struck by an east...
Sep 07, 2017
DeVos planning to scrap Obama rules on campus sexual assault
ARLINGTON, Va. - Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared on Thursday that “the era of ‘rule by letter’ is over” as she announced plans to change the way colleges and universit...
Sep 07, 2017
Judge in Menendez case: No 'tabloid trial' in my courtroom
NEWARK, N.J. - The trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy doctor charged with bribing him lurched forward in fits and starts Thursday, as the judge twice sent the jury out of the courtroom and ...
Sep 07, 2017
As US weighs lifting Sudan sanctions, South Sudan a concern
As the United States considers lifting sanctions on Sudan, one of the most sensitive issues is on display in these tense borderlands: weapons. South Sudan’s government accuses its neighbour of s...
Sep 07, 2017