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Ottawa pledges to spend $15 million to restore Ontario's tree-planting program
The federal government promised Wednesday to spend $15 million over four years to save a tree-planting program in Ontario cancelled by Premier Doug Ford's government. Forests Ontario was informed in t...
Jun 07, 2019
Conservation group calls death of right whale in Gulf of St. Lawrence 'devastating'
FREDERICTON - The head of a wildlife protection group is calling news of a dead right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence devastating, saying the loss of even one of the whales ...
Jun 07, 2019
SNC-Lavalin delays jury decision in corruption trial until June 28
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is pushing back its decision on whether to opt for a trial by jury or by judge alone in a corruption case that has tripped up the engineering giant and ensnared it in...
Jun 07, 2019
China 'inventing excuses' to block shipments of Canadian canola, Trudeau says
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says China is "inventing excuses" to block imports of Canadian canola. Speaking at a press conference Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trudeau u...
Jun 07, 2019
McKenna considering Senate changes to environmental-assessment bill
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she is carefully considering the amendments the Senate has made to the Liberal government's environmental-assessment bill. McKenna says she is...
Jun 07, 2019
'It's not about popularity:' Trudeau, Macron meet in Paris amid lagging polls
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such fears and dismis...
Jun 07, 2019
Cabinet docs detail Mulroney challenges on China after Tiananmen Square massacre
OTTAWA - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark didn't try to sugarcoat it for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and their cabinet colleagues. Over the previous 48 hours, stunned disbelief had sunk in across...
Jun 07, 2019
AMC to rethink Georgia filming if abortion law takes effect
ATLANTA - The network behind a show that's become part of Georgia's pop-culture fiber says it will "reevaluate" its activity in the state if a new abortion law goes into effect. "The Walking Dead" is ...
Jun 07, 2019
Trump honours D-Day vets, discusses Vietnam deferment
PORTSMOUTH, England - President Donald Trump on Wednesday joined world leaders to praise alliances and military service ahead of the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, just hours after offering no reg...
Jun 07, 2019
French beaches at dawn set scene for solemn D-Day observance
OMAHA BEACH, France - The five beaches are silent at dawn but forever haunted. When the sun rises Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled and died 75 years ago, the diminishin...
Jun 07, 2019
