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Efforts to ditch seasonal time change gaining steam
The British Columbia government's effort to formally do away with seasonal time changes marks the most decisive move in a debate that's quietly raged across Canada for years. At least two ot...
Nov 02, 2019
Toronto councillors pass motion condemning Quebec's secularism bill
Quebec Premier Francois Legault defended the province's controversial secularism bill on Thursday after yet another municipal council passed a motion this week condemning the legislation. Toronto...
Nov 02, 2019
EPL title contenders Liverpool and City leave it late to win
Manchester City left it late to win. Liverpool left it even later. The two teams leading the English Premier League each staged late comebacks to win 2-1 against unfavoured opponents on Saturday. The ...
Nov 02, 2019
Police looking for three suspects after five teenagers shot in Toronto
TORONTO - Cleaners were removing large bloodstains splattered along the hallway of a Toronto residential building on Thursday following a shooting that sent five teenagers to hospi...
Nov 02, 2019
New Brunswick slavery connections: Portrait of Ludlow removed from law school
FREDERICTON - Pressure is mounting to have the University of New Brunswick remove George Duncan Ludlow's name from its law faculty building in Fredericton because of his connection...
Nov 02, 2019
Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi
BEIRUT - The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS cent...
Nov 02, 2019
Wildlife group reminds of pollution dangers after pelican hurt in B.C. lake
BURNABY, B.C. - An endangered American white pelican faces a long recovery after being injured by some fishing line discarded in a British Columbia lake. The Wildlife Rescue Association says in a...
Nov 02, 2019
Winnipeg man charged with attempted murder after three-year-old boy stabbed
WINNIPEG - There is candy beside Hunter Haze Straight-Smith's hospital bed where his family has been in prayer since the three-year-old boy was brutally stabbed while asleep in his bed. He was in crit...
Nov 02, 2019
Questions mount around Las Cruces film set purchase
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Movie sets are essential for producing dramatic films, but are those sets themselves works of art? That's how the city resolved a months-long internal investigation last year into w...
Nov 02, 2019
Mosque founder says Muslims 'need to be patient' as threats scuttle church sale
MONTREAL - When residents north of Montreal learned of a plan to transform a local church into a mosque and Islamic cultural centre, the reaction was so strong that parish leaders invoked the 201...
Nov 02, 2019