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Online immigrant-sponsor application discriminatory, immigration lawyers say
OTTAWA - A new first-come-first-served online application for immigrants seeking to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada is being condemned as "profoundly ...
Jan 29, 2019
Liberals target Scheer over cash-for-access fundraisers
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal party is looking to turn the tables on the Conservatives over so-called cash-for-access fundraisers. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is expected to attend a fundraiser a...
Jan 29, 2019
Pat Sheahan follows in son's footsteps, joins Dinos football program
Thirty years as a head football coach taught Pat Sheahan the importance of preparation, but he couldn't have predicted the bizarre twist his U Sports career would take th...
Jan 29, 2019
Weinstein lawyers argue against sex trafficking claim
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein's lawyers say the movie mogul is not a sex trafficker, despite claims in a class-action lawsuit. The lawyers in a court filing late Monday urged a New York judge to toss ou...
Jan 29, 2019
Former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum to join CNN
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum is joining CNN as a political commentator. The cable network announced the move Tuesday. The former Tallahassee mayor ...
Jan 29, 2019
Bryce Dallas Howard honoured by Harvard's Hasty Pudding
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Actor, producer and director Bryce Dallas Howard has been named 2019 Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The nation's oldest collegiate theatrical o...
Jan 29, 2019
Five-year-old polar bear showing signs of illness dies at Winnipeg zoo
WINNIPEG - A polar bear has died at the zoo in Winnipeg. Assiniboine Park Zoo says the five-year-old bruin named Blizzard died Monday. The bear had been showing signs of illness over the last two...
Jan 29, 2019
Murder trial hears of lover's panicked attempts to reach Richard Oland
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The woman Richard Oland was having an extramarital affair with has described the anger and then the panic she felt as she tried in vain to reach her multimillionaire lover in the ho...
Jan 29, 2019
Infamy, zeal for carnage inspired Vegas shooter
LAS VEGAS - A high-stakes gambler who rained down a hail of gunfire, killing 58 people from his high-rise casino suite in Las Vegas wanted infamy and mass destruction, the FBI told the Associated Pres...
Jan 29, 2019
Defence chief scheduled to testify in Vice-Admiral Mark Norman pre-trial today
OTTAWA - Canada's top military officer, Gen. Jonathan Vance, is slated to take the witness stand today as a pre-trial hearing resumes for his former second-in-command, suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norm...
Jan 29, 2019