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US seizes North Korean cargo ship for violating sanctions
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has seized a North Korean cargo ship used to supply coal to the isolated nation in violation of international sanctions, law enforcement officials said Thursday. ...
May 09, 2019
U.S., European diplomats support Canada in Chinese court in death-penalty appeal
OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats were joined in a Chinese courtroom today by American, British, French and German colleagues to watch the appeal of a Canadian who has been sentenced to ...
May 09, 2019
Ex-Tory MP Del Mastro accuses Elections Canada of a 'personal vendetta'
OTTAWA - A former Conservative MP who spent time behind bars for electoral offences is accusing Canada's elections authority of having a personal vendetta against him - and he's calling for a par...
May 09, 2019
Man charged with second-degree murder in deaths of Calgary woman, toddler
CALGARY - A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of t...
May 09, 2019
Scheer says he will move Canadian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv
MONTREAL - A Conservative government would move Canada's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, party leader Andrew Scheer said in a sometimes fiery foreign-policy speech on Tuesday t...
May 09, 2019
Defenceman Teemu Kivihalme signs with Toronto Maple Leafs
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Teemu Kivihalme to a one-year, entry-level contract. The 23-year-old had nine goals and 21 assists in 60 games with Karpat of the Finnish ...
May 09, 2019
'She was slaughtered:' Winnipeg jury hears closing arguments in murder case
WINNIPEG - A Crown prosecutor says a Winnipeg man on trial for killing an Indigenous woman committed a ghastly crime worse than any horror movie. "How did Christine Wood die? She was slaughtered," Bre...
May 09, 2019
Leafs centre Tavares suffers oblique injury while practising with Canada
Toronto Maple Leafs centre John Tavares suffered an oblique injury while practising with the Canadian team ahead of the world hockey championship, the NHL club said Thursday in a statem...
May 09, 2019
Saskatchewan Roughriders sign veteran middle linebacker Solomon Elimimian
REGINA - Veteran linebacker Solomon Elimimian has a new home. The six-foot-two, 225-pound Elimimian signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Thursday. Elimimian spent his first nine CFL seasons wit...
May 09, 2019
Edmonton Oilers name Ken Holland as general manager and president of hockey ops
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have made it official that Ken Holland is their new general manager, after Holland spent more than two decades and won three Stanley Cups doing the same job for the Detr...
May 09, 2019
