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Alberta says grant plan to cut class sizes has failed, costing $3.4 billion
EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says a grant program to cut class sizes in schools has spent $3.4 billion over the last 15 years while failing to deliver results. Adriana LaGrange says a repor...
Oct 18, 2019 Alberta Legislature
Workers celebrate deal with GM, show union power in industry
DETROIT - On the picket lines at a General Motors transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, passing cars honked and striking workers celebrated a tentative contract deal by munching on 10 pizzas dropped off...
Oct 18, 2019
Yanks' bullpen to be tested after rainout squeezes ALCS
NEW YORK - A rainy day in the Bronx has left a most daunting October test for the New York Yankees vaunted bullpen: four games, four days and already a deficit to overcome against the Houston Astros i...
Oct 18, 2019
Joe Maddon returns to Los Angeles Angels as manager
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Joe Maddon is back under the halo. Maddon agreed to a three-year deal to become the Los Angeles Angels' manager on Wednesday, reuniting the World Series-winning former bench boss of ...
Oct 18, 2019
Bloc leader already talking about defeating minority governments, blocking bills
CANDIAC, Que. - Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is already touting the gains his party would seek for Quebec - and the projects it would block - in the event of a minority gover...
Oct 18, 2019
Trudeau accuses Tories of running 'one of the dirtiest, nastiest campaigns'
MONTREAL - Justin Trudeau usually moves through a crowd at a brisk pace, stopping just long enough to pose for a photo and express his gratitude before reaching for the next outstretched hand. An olde...
Oct 18, 2019
TSN president weighs in on the network, competition and sports media landscape
TORONTO - Ask TSN president Stewart Johnston about his start at the network and he'll fire off specifics like it was yesterday. "It was Feb. 10, 1997. I wore a full suit because I didn't know what to ...
Oct 18, 2019
Roughly 9,000 still without power in Manitoba after snowstorm
WINNIPEG - Slogging through drenched fields and exposed to open prairie in near-freezing temperatures, Manitoba Hydro crews continued to restore power Wednesday to homes and businesses hit by last wee...
Oct 18, 2019
Scheer takes fight to Bernier, Greens and NDP go head to head on West Coast
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer returns to Quebec today, a province he just left, to campaign alongside the candidate hoping to knock People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier out of the House o...
Oct 18, 2019
Scheer takes fight to Bernier, Greens and NDP go head to head on West Coast
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer returns to Quebec today, a province he just left, to campaign alongside the candidate hoping to knock People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier out of the House o...
Oct 18, 2019