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Fuel spill at Montreal's Trudeau airport as refuelling workers' strike continues
MONTREAL - Aircraft refuelling workers with Swissport Canada remained off the job Saturday as a strike that began earlier in the week continued. The company has been maintaining refuelling s...
Jan 04, 2020
NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security
BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...
Jan 04, 2020
NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security
BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...
Jan 04, 2020
Son of television producer dies in ski accident in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - The son of television producer Jenji Kohan, who created the series "range Is the New Black," died in a New Year's Eve ski accident in Utah, police said Thursday. Charles "Charlie" Nox...
Jan 04, 2020
House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 04, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...
Jan 04, 2020
Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
NEW YORK - Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than ...
Jan 04, 2020
'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead
REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...
Jan 04, 2020
Morozov scores in overtime as Russia beats Sweden 5-4 in world junior semis
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Russia will play for gold at the world junior hockey championship. Ivan Morozov scored his second goal of the game at 3:24 of overtime Saturday to lead his country ...
Jan 04, 2020
Montreal aircraft refuellers sit down with mediators as strike hits third day
The union representing employees who refuel the planes at two Montreal airports met with mediators Thursday as their strike dragged into its third day. Union representatives sat down with mediato...
Jan 04, 2020