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'I just want to be like them': Fans fete World Cup champs
NEW YORK - Adoring fans packed New York City's Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday amid a blizzard of confetti to praise the World Cup-winning U.S. women's national soccer team as athletic leaders on the fi...
Jul 10, 2019
U.S.-Iran tension has implications for Canadian troops in Iraq: analysts
OTTAWA - The escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf between Iran and the United States have implications for the future safety of Canadian troops in Iraq, analysts suggested Monday. Canada has about ...
Jul 10, 2019
'I just want to be like them': Fans fete World Cup champs
NEW YORK - Adoring fans packed New York City's Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday amid a blizzard of confetti to praise the World Cup-winning U.S. women's national soccer team as athletic leaders on the fi...
Jul 10, 2019
Lone woman says fellow councillors shut her out when she pushes for diversity
FREDERICTON - The only woman on Fredericton city council says she feels shut out when trying to advocate for change. Kate Rogers said Wednesday she has decided to speak out publicly because her privat...
Jul 10, 2019
Driver escapes injury when saguaro cactus pierces windshield
TUCSON, Ariz. - Arizona authorities say a driver escaped injury when his car's windshield was pierced by the trunk of a saguaro cactus during a wreck Wednesday on the outskirts of Tucson. Pima County ...
Jul 10, 2019
City to begin rolling out single use plastic bag bylaw next spring
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops City Council is asking staff to consult with Kamloops residents and businesses about a proposed single-use plastic bag ban. A draft bylaw was brought to council at yesterday's (Jul...
Jul 10, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
Facing calls for resignation, Acosta defends Epstein deal
WASHINGTON - Insisting he got the best deal he could at the time, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstei...
Jul 10, 2019
Whispers, suspicion about Epstein on Caribbean island
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands - Ask about Jeffrey Epstein on St. Thomas and rooms go quiet. Some people leave. Those who share stories speak in barely audible tones. The 66-year-old billionaire bou...
Jul 10, 2019
Black-bear parts, anteaters among wildlife seizures during Cdn enforcement blitz
OTTAWA - Environment Canada says officers seized dozens of black-bear parts, diet pills made from endangered African plants and the bodies of two scaly anteaters as part of an inte...
Jul 10, 2019
Judge rejects demand to halt transfer of two Montreal English schools to French system
MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court on Monday rejected a request by a Montreal English school board to save two east-end schools from being transferred to the overcrowded French sys...
Jul 10, 2019
