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Montreal-bound Air Transat flight makes emergency stop in Paris; passengers safe
MONTREAL - More than 300 passengers resumed their journey to Montreal Sunday after their Air Transat flight from Italy had to make an emergency landing in France. The airline ...
Oct 20, 2019
With leading parties deadlocked, volunteers can make all the difference
MONTREAL - They're the ones knocking on doors, putting up signs, making phone calls, and serving as the cheering human backdrops behind Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh or Andrew Scheer. But while they m...
Oct 20, 2019
Scheer seeks guarantee SNC-related documents will be saved by bureaucrats
DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has written to the government's top bureaucrat to ask him to keep a list of any requests he gets to delete records - suggesting that a...
Oct 20, 2019
Netflix releases Panama Papers movie despite lawsuit
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Netflix has released a movie based on the so-called Panama Papers despite an attempt by two lawyers to stop the streaming premiere. "The Laundromat," starring Gary Oldman, Antonio B...
Oct 20, 2019
Mixed message: Boris Johnson seeks Brexit delay, sort of
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pressed ahead Sunday with plans to try to win parliamentary backing for his new Brexit deal even as the European Union began considering his grudging requ...
Oct 20, 2019
'The Casagrandes' extols Mexican American life via animation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - "The Casagrandes," Nickelodeon's new original animated series that centres around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feat...
Oct 20, 2019
Crews repairing traffic signals on Dunmore Road today
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Motorists are being reminded to drive with caution Sunday as city crews repair a traffic signal on Dunmore Road.The work will take place at Dunmore Road Southeast and Southview Driv...
Oct 20, 2019
Faced with protests, Lebanon PM blames own gov't for crisis
BEIRUT - Lebanon's prime minister gave his partners in government a 72-hour ultimatum to come up with "convincing" solutions for a rapidly worsening economic crisis, as nationwide protests against the...
Oct 20, 2019
Johnson returns to London to drum up support for Brexit deal
LONDON - After defying expectations to win the backing of European Union leaders for his new Brexit deal , Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling Friday to secure enough support to get the deal thr...
Oct 20, 2019
US defence chief in Afghanistan to assess the way ahead
KABUL - U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper has arrived in Kabul to assess what comes next for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Peace talks with the Taliban are stalled and persistent violent attacks b...
Oct 20, 2019