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Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier speaks at UN sustainability forum
NEW YORK - Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan Saturday. The 15-year-old activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on...
Sep 28, 2019
Scheer to visit oil-services company in Edmonton as Singh lingers in B.C.
OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer takes his Conservative election campaign to an Edmonton oil-industry company today.He's visiting FourQuest Energy, a firm that specializes in nitrogen cooling and cleaning servi...
Sep 28, 2019 Photo Courtesy of the Canadian Press
Meth, fentanyl, weapons seized from Red Deer home
Red Deer, AB - Approximately $27,000 worth of drugs were seized, along with several weapons, and four people were arrested as the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) concluded a short-term d...
Sep 28, 2019 Photo courtesy of ALERT
Canadian women's soccer team names roster for Japan trip
OTTAWA - Canada will go with a familiar roster for its women's soccer friendly against host Japan next month. Twenty-one of the 24 players on the roster for the Oct. 6 game in Shizuoka return fro...
Sep 28, 2019
Shocker at Shizuoka: Japan upsets Ireland in Brighton sequel
SHIZUOKA, Japan - Nobody seemed less surprised than Jamie Joseph and his Japan players after the Rugby World Cup hosts toppled Ireland 19-12 in one of the tournament's greatest upsets. In a remarkable...
Sep 28, 2019
Scheer promises Conservatives would launch inquiry into SNC-Lavalin affair
MONTREAL - A Conservative government would launch a judicial inquiry to find out what happened during the SNC-Lavalin affair and introduce legislation to investigate "sleazy" politicians, leader ...
Sep 28, 2019
Whistleblower accuses White House of Ukraine call coverup
WASHINGTON - White House officials took extraordinary steps to "lock down" information about President Donald Trump's summertime phone call with the president of Ukraine, even moving the transcript to...
Sep 28, 2019
Supreme Court sides with Ontario in dispute over property-survey copyright
OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has put the brakes on a long-planned class-action suit over the rights to property surveys in Ontario. Keatley Surveying Ltd. brought the act...
Sep 28, 2019
Trudeau to march at Montreal climate rally after days of green promises
SUDBURY, Ont. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will take part in Friday's massive climate march in Montreal, he announced Thursday as he continued to criss-cross the country making a ser...
Sep 28, 2019
UK's Princess Beatrice engaged to real estate entrepreneur
LONDON - Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson have announced the engagement of their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice. They said Thursday that Beatrice is engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi...
Sep 28, 2019