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The Latest: Soccer team honoured with symbolic key to city
NEW YORK - The Latest on a New York City parade and ceremony honouring the U.S. women's national soccer team (all times local): 11:55 a.m. U.S. women's soccer team player Megan Rapinoe (ruh-PEE'-noh) ...
Jul 10, 2019
Scheer promises to scrap clean-fuel standard
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels, in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins...
Jul 10, 2019
David Saint-Jacques gets hero's welcome in return to space agency headquarters
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Astronaut David Saint-Jacques was met with thunderous applause today as he returned to a hero's welcome at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters near Montreal. Space agency sta...
Jul 10, 2019
Lack of host communities hampering Pikangikum evacuation: chief
PIKANGIKUM, Ont. - The chief of an Ontario First Nation threatened by a forest fire says a plan to evacuate residents via buses and boats today has been paused because of a lack of space in host commu...
Jul 10, 2019
Federal Liberals blast Ontario Tories over looming Bombardier layoffs
OTTAWA - Looming layoffs at Bombardier's railway car plant in Thunder Bay, Ont., are creating a political row between Queens Park and Parliament Hill. The federal Liberals and Ontario Tories are ...
Jul 10, 2019
Lawyer who took on DuPont has book coming out
NEW YORK - A top environmental lawyer, the inspiration for a film starring Mark Ruffalo, has a book coming about his 20-year battle with DuPont. Rob Bilott's "Exposure" is scheduled for release in Oct...
Jul 10, 2019
Beyoncé drops new original song from 'The Lion King'
LOS ANGELES - Beyonc has dropped a new original song from Disney's live-action "Lion King." The song, "Spirit," was released Tuesday and should get an Academy-Award push for Academy Award consideratio...
Jul 10, 2019
Coco Gauff's captivating Wimbledon ends against former No. 1
WIMBLEDON, England - Out of escapes, out of surprises, Coco Gauff knew her captivating Wimbledon ride at age 15 was nearing its conclusion. The thousands of spectators at Court No. 1 on Monday realize...
Jul 10, 2019
OCS pulls affected CannTrust cannabis products amid Health Canada probe
TORONTO - The Ontario Cannabis Store says it has removed certain CannTrust Holdings Inc. products from its shelves online and at physical outlets until Health Canada completes its investigation involv...
Jul 10, 2019
Man who says Spacey groped him invokes right not to testify
NANTUCKET, Mass. - The man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016 asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify aft...
Jul 10, 2019