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Liberals to cut taxes for clean-tech producers, aim for carbon neutrality by 2050
VANCOUVER - Companies that produce zero-emission technologies will pay half as much income tax if the Liberals are re-elected, leader Justin Trudeau promised Tuesday, as the party took heat over a lac...
Sep 24, 2019
Nothing 'routine' about Meng Wanzhou's treatment at Vancouver airport: Defence
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou say there was nothing "routine" about the way she was questioned by border officials before she was read her rights and informed of her...
Sep 24, 2019
Beyak thumbs nose at Senate orders on racist letters about Indigenous Peoples
OTTAWA - Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples have finally been removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak's website - but only because Senate officials erased them after Beyak refused to do so herself...
Sep 24, 2019
Montreal Alouettes set to start Matt Shiltz at quarterback against Lions
MONTREAL - Matt Shiltz will replace the suspended Vernon Adams Jr. as starting quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes in the team's next game. Shiltz gets the call on Saturday in B.C., against the Lio...
Sep 24, 2019
In cryptic tweet, Antonio Brown appears to retire from NFL
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Antonio Brown went on a Twitter rant on his first NFL Sunday without a team, announcing he was done for good with the league that exiled him. Even though, he claimed, it had been m...
Sep 24, 2019
Trump says transcript of Ukraine conversation to be released
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he has directed the release on Wednesday of the "unredacted" transcript of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump has acknowle...
Sep 24, 2019
Alberta property owner who shot suspected thief facing lawsuit
CALGARY - A southern Alberta man who shot at suspected thieves on his rural property is being sued by one of the people.A statement of claim says Ryan Watson entered Edouard Maurice's property near Ok...
Sep 24, 2019
Quebec Human Rights commission says majority of hate attacks go unreported
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission says the vast majority of xenophobic and Islamophobic hatred in the province goes unreported to competent authorities. The organization has released th...
Sep 24, 2019
James Franklin reclaims Argos' starting quarterback job
TORONTO - James Franklin is set to return as the Toronto Argonauts' starting quarterback. Argos head coach Corey Chamblin says Franklin will start on Saturday when Toronto (2-10) hosts the Saskatchewa...
Sep 24, 2019
Volkswagen bosses charged in Germany over emissions scandal
BERLIN - German prosecutors dealt a blow to Volkswagen's efforts to put the 2015 emissions-cheating case behind it, charging the automaker's chief executive, chairman and former CEO with stock manipul...
Sep 24, 2019