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Government to ask public sector workers to take wage cut
EDMONTON, AB - The province is asking public sector workers to accept a pay cut when wage arbitration talks resume later this week.In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Finance Minister Travis To...
Oct 29, 2019
Liberal staffers removing anti-carbon tax stickers, minister charges
TORONTO - Liberal staffers are peeling government-mandated anti-carbon tax stickers off of gas pumps, Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford said Tuesday, insisting that disappearin...
Oct 29, 2019
Fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont officially denied entry into Canada
MONTREAL - The lawyer for the fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont says his client has been officially refused entry into Canada. Stephane Handfield said Puigdemont learned today an im...
Oct 29, 2019
Gnabry, Müller save Bayern from German Cup upset in Bochum
BERLIN - Serge Gnabry and Thomas Mller scored late to help Bayern Munich avoid an upset and beat second-division Bochum 2-1 in the German Cup on Tuesday. An own goal from Canadian teen Alphonso Davies...
Oct 29, 2019
Frustration rises amid another round of California blackouts
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcak...
Oct 29, 2019
Alberta asking arbitrators to cut public service pay by two per cent
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is seeking wage rollbacks as binding arbitration gets set to resume with more than 180,000 public sector workers. Finance Minister Travis Toews says the government wi...
Oct 29, 2019
John Conyers, longest serving black congressman, dies at 90
DETROIT - Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in ...
Oct 29, 2019
Aced out: Scherzer scratched, Nats fall behind Astros 3-2
WASHINGTON - Max Scherzer walked stiffly into the interview room, a bandage on the back of the Washington star pitcher's neck telegraphing trouble. He had hoped to beat the Astros for the second time ...
Oct 29, 2019
Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation
EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...
Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
NCAA board approves athlete compensation for image, likeness
The NCAA took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness." The natio...
Oct 29, 2019