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One of two Quebec Liberal leadership candidates drops out, citing lack of money
MONTREAL - One of only two leadership contenders for the Quebec Liberal Party is dropping out of the race. Alexandre Cusson, the former mayor of Drummondville, Que., announced today that the race...
May 11, 2020
Police-escorted motorcade to accompany remains of helicopter crash victim
HALIFAX - The remains of Sub-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough, a Royal Canadian Navy sailor killed last month in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece, were expected to arrive in Halifax on ...
May 11, 2020
'Heavy handed' approach would force inspectors into infected plants: Union
OTTAWA - Canada's Agriculture Union says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will order non-meat inspectors into meat plants under threat of discipline. The union says the agency is ins...
May 11, 2020
Premier League boost: Gov't aims for return of sport in June
LONDON - The path to the Premier League resuming was eased Monday by the government saying elite sports will be allowed to resume in England in June if there is no new spike in coronavirus infections....
May 11, 2020
Scheer backs Liberal Taiwan push at WHO as move long advocated by Conservatives
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is backing the Liberal government's efforts to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization discussions on COVID-19, a position that China opposes. But Sc...
May 11, 2020
Nova Scotia mass killer's semi-automatic guns believed to have come from U.S.
HALIFAX - The RCMP says three of the four semi-automatic weapons used by a gunman during last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia are believed to have come from the Unit...
May 11, 2020
Feds pledge COVID-19 financing help for the country's biggest companies
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will provide loans and financing to the country's largest employers to help them weather the COVID-19 economic crisis. The Liberals are promising bridge financi...
May 11, 2020
Sen. Ted Cruz writing book on Supreme Court cases
NEW YORK - Sen. Ted Cruz is working on a book, to be published in October, about the Supreme Court. Regnery Publishing announced Monday that the book was called "One Vote Away" and would draw upon the...
May 11, 2020
Jerry Stiller, comedian and 'Seinfeld' actor, dies at 92
NEW YORK - Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash tele...
May 11, 2020
Pandemic creates electoral uncertainty for Trump, Democrats
Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to general election: 176 ___ THE NARRATIVE President Donald Trump's reelection is facing gro...
May 11, 2020