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Tories accuse Liberals of ruining military officers' careers
OTTAWA - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is accusing the Liberal government of having created an unprecedented crisis inside the Canadian military following news it is losing another second-...
Jul 10, 2019
Settlement reached in class-action harassment lawsuit against RCMP
VANCOUVER - Three women who shared their stories of sexual harassment as part of a class-action lawsuit against the RCMP have shown great courage so others who may have endured similar&...
Jul 10, 2019
Spanish judge rules 43-year-old man is son of Julio Iglesias
MADRID - A judge in Spain has found there is sufficient evidence to establish that a 43-year-old man is the biological son of Julio Iglesias even though the singer refused to have a DNA test. The judg...
Jul 10, 2019
NATO secretary-general to visit Canada for meeting with Trudeau
OTTAWA - NATO's secretary-general is visiting Canada next week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office says he and Jens Stoltenberg will meet at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in Ontario on Monday. Sto...
Jul 10, 2019
Saudi carrier cancels troubled Boeing 737 order for Airbus
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Boeing's campaign to restore the reputation of its bestselling plane after two deadly crashes suffered a blow with a Saudi airline cancelling an order worth up to $5.9 bi...
Jul 10, 2019
1-year-old dies in fall from cruise ship in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A 1-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Police S...
Jul 10, 2019
Powell signals that rate cut could be coming soon
WASHINGTON - Chairman Jerome Powell signalled Wednesday that the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates late this month for the first time in a decade in light of a weakening global economy a...
Jul 10, 2019
The Latest: Soccer team honoured with symbolic key to city
NEW YORK - The Latest on a New York City parade and ceremony honouring the U.S. women's national soccer team (all times local): 11:55 a.m. U.S. women's soccer team player Megan Rapinoe (ruh-PEE'-noh) ...
Jul 10, 2019
Scheer promises to scrap clean-fuel standard
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels, in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins...
Jul 10, 2019
David Saint-Jacques gets hero's welcome in return to space agency headquarters
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Astronaut David Saint-Jacques was met with thunderous applause today as he returned to a hero's welcome at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters near Montreal. Space agency sta...
Jul 10, 2019