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Huawei Canada says it met federal security requirements for new Arctic 4G project
OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it has received federal approval to work with a northern telecom company and an Inuit development corporation to extend high-speed 4G wireless services to 70 communities in...
Jul 22, 2019
Nova Scotia expert panel examining safety of high school sports like rugby
HALIFAX - An expert panel promised after high school rugby was banned then reinstated in Nova Scotia this year has begun its work. The 17-member inter-school sport safety review panel is expected to r...
Jul 22, 2019
Former Canadian international Jamie Cudmore says time was right to come home
Jamie Cudmore says the time was right to come home. The 40-year-old former Canadian international, one of Canada's best-known rugby exports, is leaving France to groom the next wave of rugby...
Jul 22, 2019
Provincial police suspend aerial search for missing businessman, son
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are suspending helicopter searches today for a Quebec businessman and his teen son missing for 12 days somewhere in a vast area of the upper Laurentians. Police say...
Jul 22, 2019
Federal money to help veterans find housing, basic services
OTTAWA - A Montreal project to help homeless veterans find a place to live and other necessary services is among 22 initiatives receiving federal money from a fund that suppor...
Jul 22, 2019
Canadian men's basketball team names assistant coaches for World Cup
TORONTO - The Canadian senior men's basketball team has named Nate Bjorkgren, Brad Greenberg, Nathaniel Mitchell and Jon Goodwillie as assistant coaches for the FIBA World Cup later this summer in Chi...
Jul 22, 2019
Pioneering Native American author honoured with peace prize
CINCINNATI - A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year's winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature's power to foster peace, socia...
Jul 22, 2019
Ali called Marvel about 'Blade' after 'Green Book' win
SAN DIEGO - Mahershala Ali made the first move with Marvel Studios and "Blade." Comic-Con audiences learned on Saturday night that Ali would be playing the Marvel Comics character in a reboot. Marvel ...
Jul 22, 2019
Review: In Tarantino's latest, a radiant Hollywood fable
Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what's so great about movies - or at least, what he thinks is so great about them. He's made an old-fashioned double-feature ("Death Proof," o...
Jul 22, 2019
Manchester concert bombing suspect kept in custody
LONDON - The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been kept in custody at a bail hearing. Hashem Abedi appeared at Oxford Crown Cour...
Jul 22, 2019