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Kyle Lowry receives contract extension from Toronto Raptors
TORONTO - Kyle Lowry had two reasons to smile Tuesday. The Toronto Raptors point guard put pen to paper on a one-year, US$31-million contract extension before taking part in his first full practice wi...
Oct 17, 2019
Singh says abolishing the Senate would see Canadians better represented
TORONTO - Abolishing the Senate would give Canadians better representation, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday, doubling down on his party's long-standing pledge to ditch Parliament's cha...
Oct 17, 2019
IMF downgrades outlook for world economy; 2019 estimate for Canada unchanged
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund is further downgrading its outlook for the world economy, predicting that growth this year will be the weakest since the 2008 financial crisis primarily be...
Oct 17, 2019
Leaders make for hotly contested seats in Quebec, Ontario, N.S. as clock ticks
OTTAWA - After spending Wednesday wooing voters in Quebec, the leaders of the three biggest parties are separating, only Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau staying behind. He started in Montreal yesterday ...
Oct 17, 2019
GM strike pushed US factory output down 0.5% in September
WASHINGTON - U.S. factory output slumped 0.5% in September, as a strike at General Motors caused a steep decline in auto production amid broader struggles for manufacturers. The Federal Reserve said T...
Oct 17, 2019
Farrow details lack of enthusiasm at NBC for Weinstein story
NEW YORK - In reporter Ronan Farrow's account of his contentious divorce from NBC News, the more evidence he gathered on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, the less enthusia...
Oct 17, 2019
Vivid details emerge on Ukraine as impeachment quickens
WASHINGTON - The impeachment inquiry is revealing vivid new details about the high-level unease over President Donald Trump's actions toward Ukraine, and those of his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, a...
Oct 17, 2019
Jury to decide on death sentence for 'Boy Next Door Killer'
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has started deliberating whether a man prosecutors have dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer" will get a sentence of death or life in prison for the killings of two women ...
Oct 17, 2019
Attawapiskat musician releases protest song with Justin Trudeau in mind
TORONTO - Attawapiskat singer Adrian Sutherland says he was thinking of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau when he wrote a protest song ahead of the federal election about broken political promises. B...
Oct 17, 2019
Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald ...
Oct 17, 2019