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Cornwallis debate: Coast guard working with Indigenous group to change ship name
HALIFAX - The federal government is asking an Indigenous group in Nova Scotia to recommend a new name for a Canadian Coast Guard ship named after a British military officer who offered a bounty f...
Jun 30, 2020
Citroen unveils new hatchback as virus pushes event online
FRANKFURT - PSA Group unveiled one of its most important new models Tuesday with 20 people physically present and 2,600 watching online - a marketing configuration that the coronavirus seems likely to...
Jun 30, 2020
NewsAlert: CP Women's Open cancelled for 2020; Shaughnessy still host in 2021
The 2020 CP Women's Open has been cancelled. The Canadian women's professional golf championship was scheduled for the first week of September at Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club. Organ...
Jun 30, 2020
Trade experts urge heads-up approach for businesses as USMCA comes into force
WASHINGTON - Experts are urging businesses across North America to keep their heads up and their eyes open as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement comes into force this week. U.S. trade ambassador Robert ...
Jun 30, 2020
Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies
NEW YORK - Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a "second banana" to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy's front ranks as creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Sh...
Jun 30, 2020
World Rugby cancels rest of Sevens Series, Canada women finish 3rd and men 8th
World Rugby has cancelled the remaining rounds of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series due to the global pandemic, awarding New Zealand the men's and women's titles based on the existing standings. Join...
Jun 30, 2020
'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions
THE VILLAGES, Fla. - There has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort of Democrats, but a veneer of good manner...
Jun 30, 2020
RCMP Seek two suspects in violent Salmon Arm break in
SALMON ARM - RCMP is searching for a pair of suspects following a report of a residential break and enter with violence early Monday morning. This release was issued Monday afternoon by Southeast Dist...
Jun 30, 2020
Paris police react to report of armed man at shopping centre
Paris police say checks are being carried out at a popular shopping centre near La Defence business district after a witness reported seeing a man carrying a gun. Police said that they could not immed...
Jun 30, 2020
Iran journalist who fueled 2017 protests sentenced to death
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran sentenced a once-exiled journalist to death over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests that began at the end of 2017, authorities said Tuesday. Ruhollah ...
Jun 30, 2020
