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Tories turn to Bryan Adams' songwriter for election campaign theme
TORONTO - The Conservatives have turned to Bryan Adams' longtime hitmaker Jim Vallance to pen their campaign song. The guitar-driven tune is packed with Vallance's trademarked pop-rock zeal, as a chor...
Sep 11, 2019
Girlfriend of Browns DE Smith killed in roadside accident
CLEVELAND - The girlfriend of Browns defensive end Chris Smith has been killed in an accident. She was 26. The team said Petara Cordero, died when she was struck by an oncoming car on I-90 West at aro...
Sep 11, 2019
Andreescu set to make millions in endorsements after U.S. Open victory
Tennis phenom Bianca Andreescu won US$3.85 million when she beat Serena Williams in the women's final at the U.S. Open, but it's likely that paycheque is only the beginning of million-dollar payouts&n...
Sep 11, 2019
Use of fake social media bots in Alberta election coming in federal vote: experts
EDMONTON - A federal report confirming the use of false social media posts to try to manipulate last spring's Alberta election points to dangers for the upcoming federal vote, political scie...
Sep 11, 2019
Ex-hostage Boyle demanded wife lose weight as means of control: prosecutor
OTTAWA - A Crown attorney has accused Joshua Boyle of dictating strict weight-loss targets for wife Caitlan Coleman after the couple were freed as hostages of Taliban-linked captors. Prosecutor J...
Sep 11, 2019
UK's Johnson to suspend Parliament as his Brexit plans stall
LONDON - British lawmakers demanded Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government release officials' private correspondence about plans for Brexit, as the government prepared to suspend Parlia...
Sep 11, 2019
Quebec court invalidates portions of medical aid in dying laws as too restrictive
MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has invalidated parts of the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying laws, declaring them too restrictive and therefore unconstitutional. A ...
Sep 11, 2019
'Staring at me:' Oldest known spider ancestor found in Burgess Shales
Alberta's famed Burgess Shales have yielded another ground-breaking fossil find - this time the oldest known ancestor of today's spiders and scorpions Two scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum...
Sep 11, 2019
TYH: STI's are on the rise
Here's a little something that shocked me when I heard it-STI's are on the rise. Isn't that strange? To me it seems kinda weird, I mean you'd think that being a first world country, we'd be educated e...
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Trump to propose ban on flavourings used in e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his administration will propose banning thousands of flavours used in e-cigarettes amid an outbreak of breathing problems tied to vaping. State and federal hea...
Sep 11, 2019