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Questions mount around Las Cruces film set purchase
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Movie sets are essential for producing dramatic films, but are those sets themselves works of art? That's how the city resolved a months-long internal investigation last year into w...
Nov 02, 2019

Mosque founder says Muslims 'need to be patient' as threats scuttle church sale
MONTREAL - When residents north of Montreal learned of a plan to transform a local church into a mosque and Islamic cultural centre, the reaction was so strong that parish leaders invoked the 201...
Nov 02, 2019

Shapovalov to face Djokovic in Paris Masters final after Nadal withdraws
PARIS - Canada's Denis Shapovalov advanced to the finals of the Paris Masters on Saturday when opponent Rafael Nadal withdrew with an injury before the match. The 20-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont.,...
Nov 02, 2019

Compliments fresh-cut vegetables recalled due to possible Listeria
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency say Sobeys Inc. is recalling Compliments brand fresh cut vegetable products due to possible Listeria contamination.The products, which include Sweet Kale B...
Nov 02, 2019 (Image Credit: Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Metro Vancouver bus drivers plan action as contract talks break off
VANCOUVER - The union representing 5,000 bus drivers in Metro Vancouver says contract talks have broken off, setting the stage for the start of job action on Friday. Unifor ha...
Nov 02, 2019

Half a million customers in Quebec still without power after Friday's autumn storm
MONTREAL - Roughly 500,000 homes and business in Quebec are still without power following an autumn storm Friday that carried winds up to 100 kilometres per hour and heavy rain across the provinc...
Nov 02, 2019

Daylight time ends Sunday morning when clocks roll back an hour
Most Canadians will be turning their clocks back by an hour this weekend as the country moves off daylight time. But there's a growing push to abandon seasonal time changes and stick to one time ...
Nov 02, 2019

Compliments fresh-cut vegetables recalled due to possible Listeria
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency say Sobeys Inc. is recalling Compliments brand fresh cut vegetable products due to possible Listeria contamination. The products, which include Sweet Kale ...
Nov 02, 2019

B.C ticket claims Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - A single ticket sold in British Columbia claimed the $10 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.The jackpot for the next draw on Nov. 5 will again be approximately $10 million.(The...
Nov 02, 2019 (Image Credit: Lotto Max)

Fraud, corruption trial underway for former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi
MONTREAL - Paying bribes to obtain lucrative Libyan construction contracts was once the business model for a division of SNC-Lavalin, prosecutors said Thursday as the fraud and cor...
Nov 02, 2019

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