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Thailand's former PM Thaksin Shinawatra to serve one-year prison term for previous convictions
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand's Supreme Court said former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for previous convictions on graft and abuse of power charges, after investigatin...
Sep 08, 2025

Workers' daily commute to Mexico City ends in tragedy in fatal train-bus collision
ATLACOMULCO, Mexico (AP) - The freight train's horn rang out shortly before it cleaved in two a double-decker bus carrying domestic and construction workers to Mexico's capital on Monday morning, leav...
Sep 08, 2025

Manitoba grand chief calls for better cell service after mass stabbings
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba grand chief says better cell coverage could help responses to emergencies such as last week's mass stabbings on Hollow Water First Nation. Grand Chief Jerry Daniels of the Southe...
Sep 08, 2025

Quebec mom accused of abandoning her child in rural Ontario to stand trial next week
SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD - A Montreal mother charged with abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field in rural Ontario has been scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 15. The court has heard that the...
Sep 08, 2025

Suspect pleads not guilty in triple stabbing at 2023 Vancouver Chinatown festival
VANCOUVER - The man accused of stabbing three people at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown in September 2023 has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault. Blair Donnelly, who attended...
Sep 08, 2025

Vancouver festival attack fund to become endowment for Filipino community
VANCOUVER - A fund that raised $2 million for victims and families after the Lapu Lapu Festival attack that killed 11 people in Vancouver will be converted into a long-term endowment for the Filipino ...
Sep 08, 2025

Democrats release suggestive letter to Epstein purportedly signed by Trump, which he denies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released on Monday a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by President Donald Trump, which he has denied. Trump...
Sep 08, 2025

Medicine Hat remains one of the most affordable cities to rent, as rates drop in Canada
Medicine Hat remains one of the most affordable cities to rent across Canada according to a recent report from rentals.ca.This comes as the report shows rental rates in August had declined across the ...
Sep 08, 2025

Almost half of Canadians want the Temporary Foreign Worker program eliminated: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests 44 per cent of Canadians want to see the temporary foreign worker program scrapped as the country grapples with high unemployment, especially among young people. Conservat...
Sep 08, 2025

Ottawa man sentenced to 10 years in neo-Nazi terrorist propaganda trial
OTTAWA - An Ottawa man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the promotion of hate propaganda against Jewish people produced for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Superior Court Justice ...
Sep 08, 2025