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This time, Trudeau keeps low profile at G7 as election campaign looms
BIARRITZ, France - He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Aug 28, 2019

Hong Kong: Split emerges in Chinese-Canadian community amid protests
VANCOUVER - Images of police using rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in Hong Kong in early June spurred Joel Wan to pick up the phone and call the United Nations human rights office from ...
Aug 28, 2019

Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew should 'come clean'
LONDON - One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain's Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the centre of the ongoing investigation. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, spe...
Aug 28, 2019

Toyota, Suzuki partnering in self-driving car technology
TOKYO - Japan's top automaker, Toyota, and smaller rival Suzuki are partnering in the development of self-driving car technology, as manufacturers around the world grapple with innovations in the indu...
Aug 28, 2019

Iran says oil on tanker pursued by US sold; buyer unnamed
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the centre of a crisis ...
Aug 28, 2019

In the news today, Aug. 28
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 28 --- FIRST INTERIOR SHOTS OF HMS TERROR RELEASED Parks Canada has released the first pictures from inside the HMS Terror, one of the two sh...
Aug 28, 2019

'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released
It remains, despite nearly two centuries beneath the Arctic seas, amazingly shipshape. First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, ne...
Aug 28, 2019

Closing arguments in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary
CALGARY - Closing arguments are scheduled today in the trial of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who...
Aug 28, 2019

Cities to parties: Spend more to fill housing-plan gaps for seniors, Indigenous
OTTAWA - Canada's cities are asking federal parties to add more than $500 million a year to the national government's decade-long housing strategy. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says the m...
Aug 28, 2019

Benjamin Tomlin, Canadian sentenced to 10 years in Cuban prison, was set up: lawyer
MONTREAL - A Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison says he is innocent, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying...
Aug 28, 2019