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CN conductors' union gives 72-hour strike notice as talks continue
TORONTO - Canadian National Railways conductors, trainpersons and yardpersons have given strike notice ahead of a Tuesday deadline. The union, which represents 3,200 workers, provided the 72...
Nov 16, 2019
PBO forecasts slower growth and deeper federal deficits
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog warns that rougher economic waters will mean a deeper federal deficit, with no certainty on how much deeper. In a report Thursday, the parliamentary budget office...
Nov 16, 2019
CN conductors' union gives 72-hour strike notice as talks continue
TORONTO - Canadian National Railways conductors, trainpersons and yardpersons have given strike notice ahead of a Tuesday deadline.The union, which represents 3,200 workers, provided the 72-hour notic...
Nov 16, 2019 File photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Catalan poet Joan Margarit wins Spain’s Cervantes Prize
MADRID - Spain's government announced Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. Margarit, who is also an architect, h...
Nov 16, 2019
One-time Liberal senators rename themselves the Progressive Senate Group
OTTAWA - The last group of former Liberal senators in Parliament's upper chamber are rebranding themselves as the Progressive Senate Group. The nine senators say they have adopted the new name to...
Nov 16, 2019
Supreme Court sides with naturopath in manslaughter, negligence case
OTTAWA - A Quebec naturopath is not guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Roger Matern, an 84-year-old with heart di...
Nov 16, 2019
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady dies unexpectedly
DES MOINES, Iowa - The family of Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady says he has died of a heart attack at age 66. Cady's family says in a statement posted on the court's website that he died u...
Nov 16, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: A city’s history of failure in dealing with its parking problem
FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them.When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops' first motorized vehicles (it was a Chevrolet Ba...
Nov 16, 2019 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
Longtime French striker Thierry Henry named head coach of Montreal Impact
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact named French soccer legend Thierry Henry as head coach of the Major League Soccer team on Thursday, signing the former striker to a two-year contract with an o...
Nov 16, 2019
International court judges authorize Rohingya investigation
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges on Thursday approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. ...
Nov 16, 2019
