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Younger voters mobilizing to make federal election about climate change
OTTAWA - Several hundred Canadian millennials planned to rally in at least 30 cities across the country Wednesday, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change. Emma Jackson, a field organize...
Jul 19, 2019
Abuse survivors await apology from Anglican Church for physical harm: Bennett
OTTAWA - The Anglican Church's recent apology for doing "spiritual harm" to Indigenous Peoples is a beginning, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Wednesday, but victims of s...
Jul 19, 2019
Toronto FC playmaker Alejandro Pozuelo questionable to play Houston
Toronto FC will likely be without Alejandro Pozuelo when it hosts Houston on Saturday, with the Spanish playmaker still nursing a sore ankle. Pozuelo, after scoring his team-leading ninth goal of...
Jul 19, 2019
Trump vs. Dems: 'Racist,' 'socialist' lines drawn for 2020
WASHINGTON - With tweets and a vote, President Donald Trump and House Democrats established the sharp and emotionally raw contours of the 2020 election campaigns. In the process, they have created a f...
Jul 19, 2019
B.C. man is pleads guilty in the snake venom death of a two-year-old girl
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life for the death by snake venom of a two-year-old girl. Alisia Adams with&n...
Jul 19, 2019
B.C. man is pleads guilty in the snake venom death of a two-year-old girl
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life for the death by snake venom of a two-year-old girl. Alisia Adams with&n...
Jul 19, 2019
Ontario attorney general invokes PM in spat over refugee legal aid
OTTAWA - Ontario's attorney general is taking his fight for more money for refugee legal aid to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Doug Downey, who took over as Ontario's attorney general i...
Jul 19, 2019
Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency
GENEVA - The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people . A WHO...
Jul 19, 2019
Summer weather is coming back to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - After yesterday's stormy weather, summer is coming back to Kamloops. Environment Canada forecaster Bobby Sekhon says the gusty winds and rain yesterday should be holding off for now. "We ar...
Jul 19, 2019 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds
'Smell of gunpowder:' Interviews with family of shot tourist played in court
CALGARY - The wife of a German tourist who was shot in the head while driving on an Alberta highway told police she remembers hearing a pop and then smelling the strong odour of gunpowder be...
Jul 19, 2019
