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G7 leaders should step up own climate plans to help the Amazon, Greenpeace says
OTTAWA - Greenpeace officials in Canada and abroad say G7 leaders wanting to help stop the Amazon rainforest from burning need to look at their own backyards as the place to start. A record numbe...
Aug 23, 2019
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Fed officials widely divided on rates at July meeting
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials were widely divided at their meeting last month when they decided to cut rates for the first time in a decade, with some arguing for a bigger rate cut while othe...
Aug 23, 2019
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Accusers in Ohio State doctor scandal tops 300
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lawyers for men suing Ohio State University over decades-old alleged sexual misconduct by a team doctor say the growing number of accusers has topped 300. Totals confirmed to The Asso...
Aug 23, 2019
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Groups ready large get-out-the-vote campaign to keep youth turnout high
OTTAWA - Caro Loutfi is busy at her Montreal office preparing ways to get young voters to cast a ballot in this fall's federal election. Loutfi is the executive director of Apathy is Boring, a non-par...
Aug 23, 2019
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Re-energized Vancouver Whitecaps look to shake up slumping San Jose Earthquakes
Vancouver Whitecaps coach Marc Dos Santos believes the soccer field is no place for vengeance. While the 'Caps (6-12-9) certainly remember dropping a 3-1 decision to the San Jose Earthquakes (11-10-5)...
Aug 23, 2019
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Trudeau vows to stand firm against 'increasingly assertive' China
MONTREAL - Canada won't back down in its defence of Canadians against an increasingly assertive China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday following another round of sharp criticism from the ...
Aug 23, 2019
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Securing Olympic spot the latest test for Canadian softball squad
When Canadian softball pitcher Danielle Lawrie hits the mound this weekend, she won't be thinking about what's on the line. The squad is competing for a spot in next summer's Tokyo Olympics ...
Aug 23, 2019
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Code Orange: inside a Toronto hospital's preparation for the next catastrophe
TORONTO - The warning signalling a mass casualty situation blares out from the overhead speakers in the emergency department at St. Michael's Hospital minutes before the first patient shuffles in with...
Aug 23, 2019
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Greenland fallout: Trump scolds Denmark over rejection
COPENHAGEN - Escalating an international spat , President Donald Trump said Wednesday he scrapped his trip to Denmark because the prime minister made a "nasty" statement when she rejected his idea to ...
Aug 23, 2019
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Senate's new independence so good it should be enshrined in law: Harder
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's representative in the Senate says changes aimed at making the upper chamber a more independent place have worked so well that they should stay. Sen. Peter H...
Aug 23, 2019