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Flynn files new financial form reporting ties to data firm
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, disclosed a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the...
Aug 04, 2017
Congress recessing, leaving much undone, tensions with Trump
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers have scattered for their summer recess, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump. The president is angry about what the Republican-led ...
Aug 04, 2017
Military scrambles for transgender policy after Trump tweets
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s tweets declaring transgender people unwelcome in the armed forces have plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, sparking a flurry of meetings t...
Aug 04, 2017
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for July, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.3 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...
Aug 04, 2017
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for July, by province
OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.3 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 15.7 per cent (...
Aug 04, 2017
National employment numbers for July from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at July employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.3 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 61.6 per cent (61.6) Labour force participation rate: 65.7 per cent (65.9)...
Aug 04, 2017
Arrest made in robbery of elderly woman at Ontario ATM
NEWMARKET, Ont. - Police in York Region north of Toronto have arrested a 35-year-old Sudbury, Ont., man in connection with the violent robbery of an elderly woman at an ATM machine on July 31. Video r...
Aug 04, 2017
Calgary man killed in rig accident near Consort
CONSORT – RCMP were called to a workplace accident at approximately 7 a.m. on Thursday at a drilling site northwest of Consort. A 35-year-old man from Calgary died at the scene. Police say, earl...
Aug 04, 2017
UN report details Congo carnage, warns of 'ethnic cleansing'
GENEVA - U.N. human rights investigators warned Friday of ethnic cleansing in central Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children, in violence with “no ...
Aug 04, 2017
US military: Georgian soldier killed in latest Afghan attack
KABUL - A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy, killing a NATO soldier and two Afghan civilians in an attack north of the Afghan capital, the ...
Aug 04, 2017