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Juno Beach museum feeling financial pinch despite federal support
OTTAWA - Garth Webb was a 25-year-old lieutenant when he landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, one of thousands of Canadian soldiers to take part in the greatest amphibious landing in mil...
May 29, 2019
Wilson-Raybould and Philpott to run as Independents in fall election campaign
OTTAWA - Former Liberal cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott will run as Independents in the upcoming federal election, they declared Monday. The pair...
May 29, 2019
A chronology of Canada's participation in the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy
OTTAWA - A short chronology of Canada's participation in the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy: May 1943: Allies make final decision to invade. Initial invasion date May 1, 1944, then June 4, 1944. Summ...
May 29, 2019
Dispatches from Juno: How CP's war correspondents told the story of D-Day
OTTAWA - Dispatches from Ross Munro, William (Bill) Stewart and other war correspondents were how many Canadians in 1944 learned details of the June 6 D-Day landings and the fighting that followed. Th...
May 29, 2019
Hotline to help human trafficking victims, educate public launches across Canada
A national hotline to help victims and survivors of human trafficking is now taking calls, with the organization behind the service saying it hoped the new resource would also fill crucial gaps i...
May 29, 2019
Trump urges Roy Moore not to run for US Senate in Alabama
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is warning that the "consequences will be devastating" if Alabama Republican Roy Moore again runs for the U.S. Senate in 2020. Moore lost in the once-reliably red s...
May 29, 2019
Police looking for man who may have jumped from Overlanders Bridge
KAMLOOPS - A search of the river last night by police and fire crews has failed to turn up any sign of a possible person jumping off the Overlanders Bridge. In a news release, Staff Sergeant Michel Gr...
May 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's most powerful politician was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. The jail time for Liviu Dragnea, party leader of the ruli...
May 29, 2019
Farage claims pro-Brexit momentum after divisive UK vote
LONDON - British euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal - a call ...
May 29, 2019
North Korea calls Bolton 'war monger' over missile comment
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a v...
May 29, 2019
