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Promise tracker: What the parties are pitching on the campaign trail
OTTAWA - A running list of specific promises announced by the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green party since the official start of the federal election campaign on Sept. 11. Liberal...
Sep 26, 2019

Alberta property owner who shot, wounded suspected thief facing lawsuit
CALGARY - A southern Alberta man who shot at suspected thieves on his rural property is being sued by one of the people. A statement of claim says Ryan Watson entered Edouard Maurice's prope...
Sep 26, 2019

Dylan Cozens, Bowen Byram returned to Western Hockey League teams
Two of the three Canadian Hockey League players picked in the top-10 selections in this year's NHL draft are going back to their junior teams. The Buffalo Sabres sent centre Dylan Cozens back to the W...
Sep 26, 2019

Singh pledges $5,000 home rental subsidy to help up to 500,000 families
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says, if elected, he would offer rent subsidies of up to $5,000 each to provide immediate help for families struggling to pay for ho...
Sep 26, 2019

Five meals a week: Scientists audit garbage to assess household food waste
A team of scientists spent weeks combing through the garbage of dozens of households to come up with what the researchers say is the most accurate measure yet of how much food is wasted in Canadian ki...
Sep 26, 2019

Fredette's lawyer urges jury to opt for manslaughter in double murder case
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man accused of the murder of two people, including his ex-wife, had reached his breaking point the day of the killings but didn't intend to kill anyone, his law...
Sep 26, 2019

Rouhani: US should end its policy of 'maximum pressure'
NEW YORK - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the United States on Thursday to "cease this policy of maximum pressure" in favour of "dialogue, and logic and reason." Rouhani's comments came one da...
Sep 26, 2019

New President and CEO announced for YXS
PRINCE GEORGE-The Prince George Airport Authority (PGAA) will have a new president and CEO this fall.Gordon Duke will join the PGAA from the North Peace Airport in Fort St. John where he is currently ...
Sep 26, 2019 Gordon Duke, next president and CEO of YXS. Courtesy of YXS.

UK brings travellers home as Thomas Cook bosses criticized
LONDON - Britain's biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay that Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator's collapse...
Sep 26, 2019

Kevin O'Leary's wife charged in boat crash that left two dead, three injured
The wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary and an American man have been charged in connection with a boat crash that left two people dead and three others injured. Ontario Provincial P...
Sep 26, 2019