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Ottawa announces $4.5-million in funding for three palliative care projects
MONCTON, N.B. - Three organizations that focus on palliative care will receive $4.5 million in funding from Ottawa. Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the funding for three proj...
May 10, 2019
Family, strangers bid adieu to 7-year-old girl: 'A lot of outrage and pain'
GRANBY, Que. - A seven-year-old girl whose death has become a rallying cry for change to Quebec's youth protection system was laid to rest Thursday at a funeral attended by hundreds of mourn...
May 10, 2019
Suspects in Colorado school shooting due back in court
DENVER - Both suspects in a suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday as prosecutors file charges in the attack that killed a student and wounded eight others. The district attorney...
May 10, 2019
Farrakhan says he doesn't hate Jewish people
CHICAGO - Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that despite assertions by Facebook when it banned him from its platform, he is not a hater of Jewish people, is not a misogynis...
May 10, 2019
Mexico's prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion
MEXICO CITY - Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum - a seaweed-like algae - piling up o...
May 10, 2019
Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humans
SAN FRANCISCO - The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can't Facebook just fix it? It's complicated, with reasons that ...
May 10, 2019
Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile
TOKYO - The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the ...
May 10, 2019
Student 'geek squads' maintain school devices, help teachers
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Buffalo kindergarten teacher Maria Spurlock was still struggling after trying for more than a week to get a reading app working on all of her classroom iPads. When she learned her buil...
May 10, 2019
Veteran CFL quarterback Ricky Ray retires after 17 seasons
TORONTO - For two years, the athlete in Ricky Ray effectively suppressed the practicality of retirement. This time, Ray's practical side won out. The Toronto Argonauts' veteran quarterb...
May 10, 2019
Migrant detainees have right to plead for freedom before judges, Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court says a Pakistani man being held in immigration detention had the right to challenge his imprisonment in person before a judge. Although Tusif Ur Rehman Chhina was deported t...
May 10, 2019
