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Mountie who alleged unrelenting harassment loses final bid to sue RCMP
TORONTO - An RCMP officer who accused his superiors of waging an unrelenting campaign to ruin his career lost his 12-year battle to sue the force for harassment and intentional infliction of distress ...
Sep 21, 2019
Søgaard 'still the same goalie' following standout rookie campaign
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Mads Sgaard's name is well-traveled in the Western Hockey League.It took just one, breakout campaign for the Medicine Hat Tigers netminder to establish himself as one of the league'...
Sep 21, 2019
Poland's top filmmakers protest festival admission rules
WARSAW, Poland - Academy Award-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski and other top Polish filmmakers are demanding artistic independence for the nation's most prestigious film festival after a politicall...
Sep 21, 2019
Trump says gun bill negotiations going 'very slowly'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday poured cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as Attorney General William Barr circulated a draft plan on Capitol ...
Sep 21, 2019
Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line
PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed in western France Thursday, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving one of the two pilots dangling by his parachute from a high-voltage electric...
Sep 21, 2019
Bus carrying singer Josh Turner's road crew crashes, 1 dead
SHANDON, Calif. - A tour bus carrying members of the road crew for country singer Josh Turner plunged off a cliff in central California, killing one person and injuring seven others, authorities said ...
Sep 21, 2019
Iran's Guard says ready for 'any scenario' amid US standoff
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard is ready for combat and "any scenario," its chief commander said Saturday, as the country's nuclear deal with world powers collapses and the U.S. all...
Sep 21, 2019
President Donald Trump gets heat for urging Ukraine probe
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine this summer to investigate the son of former Vice-President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the matter said. Democrats condemned w...
Sep 21, 2019
Hong Kong protesters burn flag, police fire pepper spray
HONG KONG - Protesters burned a Chinese flag and police fired pepper spray during a march Saturday in an outlying district of Hong Kong in renewed clashes over anti-government grievances. Police accus...
Sep 21, 2019
Bank of Canada making effort to lie low during federal election campaign
OTTAWA - The economy is a top concern for Canadian voters and the Bank of Canada, an authority on the issue, will be largely silent during the federal election campaign. The quiet is deliber...
Sep 21, 2019