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Trudeau says climate progress made at G20, though Canada wanted more ambitious plan
1ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit.The final communique today from the two-day gathering r...
Oct 31, 2021
Trudeau says climate progress made at G20, though Canada wanted more ambitious plan
ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit. The final communique today from the two-day gathering r...
Oct 31, 2021
Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire
TOKYO (AP) - A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police an...
Oct 31, 2021
'We need help': Nunavut politician wants mental-health facility in his community
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - Tony Akoak's house sits atop what Gjoa Haven's residents call the uptown, a hill that overlooks the turquoise Arctic Ocean in the otherwise flat Nunavut community. Inside, the li...
Oct 31, 2021
NHK exit poll: Japan PM Kishida's coalition to keep majority
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's NHK public television exit poll projects Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's governing coalition will keep a majority in a parliamentary election Sunday, although it's expected to lose...
Oct 31, 2021
2-week UN climate summit formally opens in Glasgow
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has formally opened, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge ...
Oct 31, 2021
End of quantitative easing shadows Liberals' consultation on managing federal debt
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's move to end its pandemic-driven purchases of government bonds to stimulate the economy, and warnings of rate hikes sooner than previously expected, has coloured federal e...
Oct 31, 2021
'You cannot just raise the flags and replace it with nothing': AFN national chief
OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says there needs to be another symbolic gesture made to recognize the genocide of Indigenous children if Canada wants to raise its flag. Ro...
Oct 31, 2021
Play me a song: Braves organist charms fans, amuses players
ATLANTA (AP) - Matthew Kaminski had intended to play a Grateful Dead song as the walk-up music for Houston's starting pitcher at the World Series. Luis Garcia. Jerry Garcia. Get it? Then, after gettin...
Oct 31, 2021
Freeland downplays impact absence of leaders from China, Russia may have at G20 talks
ROME - Canada's deputy prime minister says the absence of leaders from China and Russia at the G20 summit in Italy this weekend isn't ideal, but isn't commenting on the impact that may have on tough c...
Oct 31, 2021