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Alberta incorporates energy war room as Canadian Energy Centre, work starts soon
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room is now a legal entity with a new name, a new managing director and a plan to be running by Christmas. Energy Minister Sonya Savage said the Canadian Energy Centre ...
Oct 11, 2019
Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel
NEW YORK - Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, says he is leaving the network. His last broadcast ...
Oct 11, 2019
Jagmeet Singh ignores surging Bloc as he courts union votes in Quebec
MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh painted his Liberal, Conservative, and Green rivals as unfriendly to to the labour movement on Wednesday, as he sought to shore up his party's traditional...
Oct 11, 2019
California adopts broadest US rules for seizing guns
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against ...
Oct 11, 2019
For 1st time, Biden declares Trump must be impeached
ROCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reele...
Oct 11, 2019
Nobel author Tokarczuk's hometown gives free rides for books
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish city is offering free public transport rides to bookworms - provided they're carrying works by the country's new Nobel literature prize laureate. City transport authorities i...
Oct 11, 2019
Jailed Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui leaves prison
TUNIS, Tunisia - Presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui left a prison Wednesday where he has been jailed since August, just four days before Tunisia's presidential runoff vote and as offi...
Oct 11, 2019
2 dead in attack targeting German synagogue on Yom Kippur
HALLE, Germany - A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack...
Oct 11, 2019
Turkey begins offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria
AKCAKALE, Turkey - Turkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving ...
Oct 11, 2019
Rape accusations against Lauer ensnare NBC management
NEW YORK - Two years after Matt Lauer was abruptly fired by NBC News for sexual misconduct, more questions are emerging about the former "Today" show host's behaviour and whether bosses looked the oth...
Oct 11, 2019