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Calgary mayor, former Alberta premier willing to help PM bridge western divide
OTTAWA - Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is willing to help bridge the current divide between western Canada and the federal government, but called speculation about him being appointed as a representativ...
Oct 29, 2019
Ninety-eight rookie MPs undergo House of Commons training in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Ninety-eight new MPs are in Ottawa to learn how to manage their budgets, get their parking passes and, later on, protect their sanity. The House of Commons began welcoming the rookie MPs, inc...
Oct 29, 2019
Injured Jozy Altidore absent from training in Atlanta, said to be back home
ATLANTA - It looks like Toronto FC will be without injured striker Jozy Altidore again for Wednesday's MLS Eastern Conference final in Atlanta. The U.S. international was not at training at a local cl...
Oct 29, 2019
December election? UK ponders early, Brexit-dominated vote
LONDON - Britain appeared on course Tuesday for an early general election that could break the country's political deadlock over Brexit, after the main opposition Labour Party said it would agree to t...
Oct 29, 2019
Lebanese prime minister quits amid anti-government protests
BEIRUT - Lebanon's prime minister resigned Tuesday, bowing to one of the central demands of anti-government demonstrators shortly after baton-wielding Hezbollah supporters rampaged through the main pr...
Oct 29, 2019
New China ambassador Dominic Barton meets detainees Kovrig and Spavor
OTTAWA - Canada's new ambassador to China has met with two Canadian men the People's Republic imprisoned nearly one year ago. Dominic Barton led his first consular visits with Michael Kovrig and ...
Oct 29, 2019
Federal judge blocks Alabama's tough abortion law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A federal judge blocked an Alabama abortion ban Tuesday that would have made the procedure a felony at any stage of pregnancy in almost all cases. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson...
Oct 29, 2019
AP sources: Hinchcliffe to be replaced at new McLaren team
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - James Hinchcliffe has been released from the new Arrow McLaren SP Racing team, two people with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press, despite repeated public as...
Oct 29, 2019
Former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles dies at 79
RICHMOND, Va. - Former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles, a Democrat known as the "transportation governor" and for his work to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and to increase foreign trade, has died. He was 7...
Oct 29, 2019
Canada's Gilgeous-Alexander quickly emerging as face of rebuilding Thunder
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said he was "tired" after his regular-season debut with the Thunder, an understandable outcome considering the whirlwind summer that saw the promising guard shipped off to Okla...
Oct 29, 2019