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'Love wins:' How a N.S. town collaborated to protect kidnapped women in Africa
AMHERST, N.S. - Simple signs with a pair of blue hearts capture a small town's sentiments over the rescue of two young Maritime women from kidnappers in Ghana. A sign on the main street...
Jun 15, 2019

Ranger completes wilderness survival course in British Columbia
Samantha Plunz, with the La Ronge Canadian Ranger Patrol, recently returned from an Enhanced Wilderness Survival Training course in Tofino, B.C.The training began May 9 and went until May 18, and incl...
Jun 15, 2019 La Ronge's Samantha Plunz completed the training last month. (submitted photo/Samantha Plunz)

UN says Canada's plan to rescue Wood Buffalo National Park not enough
The status of Canada's largest park as a World Heritage Site remains wobbly after a United Nations body expressed grave doubts about a federal plan to rescue it. "Considerably more effo...
Jun 15, 2019

Friday's Scoreboard
CFLEdmonton 32 Montreal 25Women's World CupJapan 2 Scotland 1Italy 5 Jamaica 0England 1 Argentina 0MLBAmerican LeagueHouston 15 Toronto 2Boston 13 Baltimore 2Cleveland 13 Detroit 4Tampa Bay 9 L.A. Ang...
Jun 15, 2019

Federal government making electronic logs mandatory for truck, bus drivers
ETOBICOKE, Ont. - Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices - one of the recommendations from a coroner's report into the Humboldt Broncos bu...
Jun 15, 2019

Metals mines, accounting for most federal enviro assessments, OK with Bill C-69
OTTAWA - The head of the Mining Association of Canada says the hotly contested federal environmental assessment bill is welcome in the industry it will affect the most. "This promises to be a better s...
Jun 15, 2019

Montreal borough reverts to Fete nationale festival name after uproar
Montreal festival organizers have learned the hard way that trying to rebrand Quebec's Fete nationale celebrations simply doesn't fly in these parts. The organizers of the first Festival du Solst...
Jun 15, 2019

Relationship with Metis Nation a model for reconciliation: Trudeau
OTTAWA - The Canadian government's relationship with the Metis Nation is a tangible and concrete example of reconciliation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. At a meeting known as the ...
Jun 15, 2019

Freeland rebuffs China on Meng in Washington, ahead of Trudeau- Trump meeting
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland firmly rebuffed China's latest demand Thursday to free high-tech scion Meng Wanzhou, saying it would set a dangerous precedent that could endanger a...
Jun 15, 2019

House of Commons unanimously adopts new parental-leave policy for MPs
OTTAWA - For the first time ever, members of Parliament will have the right to take paid parental leave from their jobs on Parliament Hill when they adopt or give birth. The House of Commons...
Jun 15, 2019