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Humans' racket a growing threat to East Coast whales, scientists warn
HALIFAX - A human-made racket under the ocean is a growing threat to three types of whales off the East Coast, Canadian scientists say. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada rel...
May 08, 2019
Wildlife advocate questions decision to kill pigeons pooping on Saskatoon bridge
SASKATOON - Crews tasked with cleaning a Saskatchewan bridge are in for a dirty job. The City of Saskatoon says that over the last 50 years one of its bridges has accumulated nearly 350...
May 08, 2019
A leak, a probe, a case closed: A timeline of the Mark Norman saga
OTTAWA - The decision Wednesday to stay a breach-of-trust charge against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has ended his criminal case but his future in the military is unclear. What's happened so fa...
May 08, 2019
Mel Gibson to play Santa Claus in 'Fatman' comedy
NEW YORK - Mel Gibson is to play Santa Claus in "Fatman," a comedy that will be shopped at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Gibson is attached as Kris Kringle in the film to be directed by Ian and E...
May 08, 2019
Greenhouses gas causing Canadian Arctic seas to acidify quicker: report
Research suggests that greenhouse gases are turning Canada's Arctic waters acidic at a faster rate than anywhere else in the North. The results were presented to the eight countries that ring the Arct...
May 08, 2019
Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion
NEW YORK - Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Bjork and Lady Gaga. What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp - the esthetic that's being celebrated in the new fashion mega...
May 08, 2019
Olympic trampoline champion Rosannagh MacLennan breaks her ankle
Olympic trampoline champion Rosannagh MacLennan is grounded with a broken ankle. The 30-year-old from King City, Ont., took time to come to grips with her injury before going public with it....
May 08, 2019
U.S. threatens to pull F-35 from jet competition over industrial requirements
OTTAWA - U.S. officials have threatened to pull the F-35 out of the competition to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 fighters over the Liberal government's plan to ask bidders to re-i...
May 08, 2019
Witness says she was forced into sex act with self-help guru
NEW YORK - A woman has told a jury she was forced to perform a sex act with the leader of a secretive upstate New York self-help group. The witness gave the graphic testimony Wednesday at the federal ...
May 08, 2019
R. Kelly judgment withdrawn after lawyers say he can't read
CHICAGO - A judge who ordered a default judgment against R. Kelly after the singer failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by one of his alleged victims now says the suit can proceed. The Chicago Sun-Tim...
May 08, 2019
