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Supreme Court allows suit against St. Joseph's Oratory over abuse allegations
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a bid by Montreal's Saint Joseph's Oratory to be excluded from a sexual assault class action suit. The high court today upheld a Quebec Court of Appea...
Jun 09, 2019
SNC-Lavalin delays jury decision in corruption trial until June 28
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is pushing back its decision on whether to opt for a trial by jury or by judge alone in a corruption case that has tripped up the engineering giant and ensnared it in...
Jun 09, 2019
Local boy places third at national motocross event
PRINCE GEORGE- Local boy Jess Pettis came in third place in front of a hometown crowd in Round 2 of the Rockstar Energy Triple Crown yesterday. The motocross nationals series is travelling around Cana...
Jun 09, 2019
Tory changes to assessment bill favour industry over environment, Liberals say
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals say they are reviewing the changes the Senate has made to their environmental-assessment legislation but accuse the Conservatives of bowing to pressure fro...
Jun 09, 2019
'Climate change in action:' Scientist says fires in Alberta linked to climate change
albertaEDMONTON - In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of fo...
Jun 09, 2019
Canadian general says Islamic State defeated but ideology 'alive and well'
CALGARY - Canada's former commander in Iraq says the Islamic State may have been defeated on the battlefield, but the militant group remains alive and well as an insurgency and could still wield stron...
Jun 09, 2019
Condo developers offer free wine, avocado toast to woo buyers in slowing market
VANCOUVER - It wasn't that long ago that prospective homebuyers in Vancouver would line up for hours to get into condo presale events or face off in heated bidding wars for a chance to ...
Jun 09, 2019
'It's not about popularity': Trudeau, Macron meet in Paris amid lagging polls
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of their citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such ...
Jun 09, 2019
Spike Lee calls for Hollywood to 'shut it down' in Georgia
LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. Most stu...
Jun 09, 2019
6 dead in storms and floods in southeastern China
BEIJING - Six people have died and one is missing after heavy rains and flooding in southeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. Xinhua said that 88,000 people have been evacuated ...
Jun 09, 2019