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Matt Damon goes mini in Venice opener "Downsizing"
VENICE, Italy - The Venice Film Festival is kicking off with “Downsizing,” starring Matt Damon in a drama with a science-fiction premise and a humanist heart. Damon plays an unhappy everym...
Aug 30, 2017
New measures coming to protect right whales in Gulf of St. Lawrence: LeBlanc
SHEDIAC, N.B. - As Canadian officials scramble to determine whether an endangered whale caught in fishing rope off Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula may have freed itself, federal Fisheries and Oceans Mi...
Aug 30, 2017
Trudeau appoints acclaimed New Brunswick writer to fill Senate vacancy
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has named David Adams Richards, an acclaimed New Brunswick novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet, to the Senate. “His dedication to the arts, his love of place and of...
Aug 30, 2017
Canada beaten 31-16 by Namibia in opening match at World Rugby U20 Trophy 2017
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Lachlan Currie and Jake Thiel scored tries in a losing cause as Canada dropped a 31-16 decision to Namibia at the World Rugby U20 Trophy 2017. The eight-team tournament is a seco...
Aug 30, 2017
Fires spark evacuation order for three northern Manitoba First Nations
WASAGAMACK, Man. - Some 2,000 residents of a remote Manitoba Indigenous community took turns piling into boats in the darkness as they fled a large forest fire that raced toward their homes. They were...
Aug 30, 2017
Police seek getaway vehicle in slaying of man in Montreal
Montreal police say they are searching for suspects after a man was gunned down inside the front door of an apartment Tuesday night. Police say the suspects pulled up in a dark vehicle and went inside...
Aug 30, 2017
Byelection to be held in Quebec City riding of Louis-Hebert on Oct. 2
QUEBEC - A provincial byelection will be held in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Hebert on Oct. 2. The vote will fill the national assembly’s only remaining vacant seat, left empty after the dep...
Aug 30, 2017
Teen drowns in southern Alberta lake
A 16-year-old boy is dead after drowning south of Brooks Tuesday afternoon. According to a news release from the RCMP, EMS, the Brooks Fire Department and the Brooks RCMP were called to Kinbrook Islan...
Aug 30, 2017
Bat Bombs Were In Competition With the Atom Bomb
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bat Bombs After hearing about the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Pennsylvania dentist and inventor Lytle S. Adams hatched a scheme...
Aug 30, 2017
Deputies: Man uses AK-47 to shoot tires in horse dispute
PAJARITO MESA, N.M. - A New Mexico man is facing aggravated assault charges after authorities say he used an AK-47 to shoot out the tires of a man he accused of stealing his horses. Court records show...
Aug 30, 2017