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Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors...

Jan 23, 2020

Poilievre ends bid for Tory leadership citing desire to spend time with daughter

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre is bowing out of his party's leadership race. Poilievre says he is overwhelmed by the support he received as he built a campaign to replace Andrew Scheer. But...

Jan 23, 2020

Barriers exist for women to get into Conservative race: Marilyn Gladu

OTTAWA - The only woman seeking to run for leader of the Conservative party so far says the rules themselves could be keeping other women out of the race. Marilyn Gladu, an Ontario MP, says ...

Jan 23, 2020

Canadian experts returning home after probing Tehran plane crash, TSB says

OTTAWA - The Transportation Safety Board says two investigators are heading back to Canada after six days in Tehran and two in Kyiv, helping probe the downing of a Ukraine International Airlines ...

Jan 23, 2020

Royal Canadian Legion expels members for wearing unearned military commendations

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Legion says it has taken a landmark decision to expel two members for wearing military commendations they did not earn as the 95-year-old veterans' organization crack downs...

Jan 23, 2020

Malaysia returns 150 containers of garbage, including 11 to Canada

OTTAWA - The Malaysian government sent 11 shipping containers of plastic garbage back to Canada recently as the country takes a hard stand to try to keep illegal foreign waste from its shores. But Can...

Jan 23, 2020

Manitoba premier says grain-drying would be exempt from a provincial carbon tax

BRANDON, Man. - One day after signalling a compromise on a carbon tax, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister pitched the idea to agriculture producers who have largely opposed a tax on carbon and...

Jan 23, 2020

Canada applauds international court decision on Myanmar Rohingya genocide

OTTAWA - Canada is urging Myanmar to fully comply with an international court ruling calling on the South Asian country to protect its minority Muslim Rohingya population from genocide. Foreign Affair...

Jan 23, 2020

Charest bows out of Tory race, citing rules of contest and changed party

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest announced Tuesday that he will not seek the federal Conservative leadership, citing the short timeline of the race and a party that has undergone "de...

Jan 23, 2020

Health minister to consult on expanding medical aid in dying to mentally ill

MONTREAL - Quebec's health minister says there will be at least one day of public consultations on expanding medical assistance in dying after an outcry over a plan to potentially extend it to th...

Jan 23, 2020