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Co-Founder of Aurora Cannabis retiring
EDMONTON - Aurora Cannabis has announced the retirement of co-founder Steve Dobler as president and a director of the company on June 30th. It says in a statement that Dobler's decision to retire and ...
Jun 16, 2020
Canada-U.S. border restrictions extended 30 days
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States will continue to limit non-essential travel between the two countries until at least July 21.Despite mounting pressure from bus...
Jun 16, 2020
Indigenous Peoples in U.S. stand with BLM, but await their own reckoning
WASHINGTON - First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples in Canada and the United States are showing solidarity with the Black community as widespread demands for social change sweep across the g...
Jun 16, 2020
Gov. Cuomo gives go-ahead for US Open tennis in NY in August
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the U.S. Open tennis tournament will held in late August as part of the state's reopening from shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Tenni...
Jun 16, 2020
Families of Flight 752 victims demand plan, timeline for holding Iran to account
OTTAWA - The families of Canadians killed when Iran shot down a civilian airliner in January are preparing to grill Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne over the federal gove...
Jun 16, 2020
Man arrested in shooting during Albuquerque statue protest
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A 31-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting that happened as protesters in New Mexico's largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the ...
Jun 16, 2020
Canada-U.S. border restrictions extended 30 days
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States will continue to limit non-essential travel between the two countries until at least July 21.Despite mounting pressure from bus...
Jun 16, 2020
World Trade Organization finds Saudi links to sports piracy
The World Trade Organization has ruled Saudi Arabia failed to stop a broadcasting operation pirating sports coverage and blocked moves to shut it down in a proxy of the Gulf economic and diplomatic di...
Jun 16, 2020
Montreal Impact extends Lassi Lappalainen loan deal through end of year
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact has extended its loan agreement with Italy's Bologna FC 1909 for winger Lassi Lappalainen, keeping the Finnish international through the end of the year. Lappalainen, 21...
Jun 16, 2020
Sabres change course, fire GM Botterill after 3 seasons
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Buffalo Sabres fired general manager Jason Botterill on Tuesday in a dramatic change-of-course three weeks after co-owner Kim Pegula said his job was secure. In announcing the deci...
Jun 16, 2020