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Montreal Impact sign Argentine striker Maxi Urruti to new three-year deal
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have signed Argentine striker Maximiliano Urruti to a new three-year contract, with an option year for 2022. The Impact acquired the 27-year-old Urruti from FC Dallas in...
Jan 17, 2019
Freeland condemns killers of Canadian mining executive found dead in Africa
HALIFAX - Canadian officials are condemning the killers of a Halifax mining executive praised as a much-loved family man and highly talented geologist with a knack for spotting producing mines. Kirk W...
Jan 17, 2019
Southern Alberta man with history of sexually assaulting girls guilty again
LETHBRIDGE- A southern Alberta man with a history of sexually assaulting girls has been found guilty again. Trevor Pritchard of Coaldale has been convicted of sexual assault, child luring and possessi...
Jan 17, 2019
Trump grounds Pelosi after she imperils his big speech
WASHINGTON - She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad. The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing ou...
Jan 17, 2019
AP Exclusive: UN health chief orders probe into misconduct
LONDON - The head of the World Health Organization has ordered an internal investigation into allegations the U.N. health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption, after a series of anonymous...
Jan 17, 2019
Fatality at new Cavendish site in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE- A worker has died at a construction site in Lethbridge where a potato processing plant is being built. The plant is still under construction and expected to be completed later this year. W...
Jan 17, 2019
Journalist in Ghana who exposed soccer corruption shot dead
ACCRA, Ghana - An investigative journalist in Ghana who helped expose a high-ranking official at world soccer body FIFA as corrupt was shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he drove home alone at nigh...
Jan 17, 2019
Police thought Dennis Oland might flee after his father's murder, trial told
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police believed that Dennis Oland, the prime suspect in the murder of his father, Richard, was a flight risk and that is why they tried to rush evidence through the RCMP crime lab. ...
Jan 17, 2019
Defence chief admits slower-than-expected growth in female representation
OTTAWA - Canada’s top military officer admits there has been slower progress than expected to get more women into the Canadian Forces. New figures show there has been only a small increase in th...
Jan 17, 2019
A federal employee is detained in China. Does he have diplomatic immunity?
OTTAWA - “We are extremely concerned as should be all countries around the world that China is choosing to act arbitrarily whether it is in application of its own justice system to its own citiz...
Jan 17, 2019