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Veteran Canadian hooker Ray Barkwill retires due to medical reasons
Veteran Canada hooker Ray Barkwill, who had hoped to make a second Rugby World Cup appearance this fall at age 39, has announced his retirement due to medical reasons. Barkwill suffered a brachial ple...
Apr 04, 2019
Cost of giving ill workers extra EI sickness benefits? $1.1 billion, PBO says
OTTAWA - The parliamentary spending watchdog says covering benefits for people who are too sick to work for up to a year would cost the federal government $1 billion more than its current program. As ...
Apr 04, 2019
Canada's failure to fight climate change 'disturbing,' environment watchdog says
OTTAWA - Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand says Canada is not doing enough to combat climate change. Gelfand delivered her final audits Tuesday before her five-year term expires, looking at ...
Apr 04, 2019
Who cleans up? No requirements to fix environmental impacts from mining: auditor
Ottawa is keeping appropriate track of how Canada's mining industry releases effluent into the country's waterways, but nobody's responsible for fixing problems when they are discovered, says the...
Apr 04, 2019
Trudeau says Wilson-Raybould, Philpott no longer Liberal caucus members
OTTAWA - Liberals are hoping to cauterize the SNC-Lavalin affair with the expulsions of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the governing party's fold. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced ...
Apr 04, 2019
Prince Albert Model Train and Hobby Show
The Prince Albert Model Train and Hobby Show will be in Prince Albert at the Golf and Curling Club - April 27 and 28th.See the poster for full details.
Apr 04, 2019
Lithuanian man flies alone on commercial plane to Italy
VILNIUS, Lithuania - A Lithuanian man flying to Italy got a pleasant surprise when he boarded the plane: He was the only passenger on the Boeing 737-800. Skirmantas Strimaitis, who was flying from cap...
Apr 04, 2019
Okurrr: Cardi B leads with 21 Billboard Awards nominations
NEW YORK - Cardi B is the leading contender at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards with 21 nominations. NBC and dick clark productions announced Thursday the 26-year-old rapper is up for honours including...
Apr 04, 2019
U.S. no longer needs 'improper' metal tariffs as negotiating tactic: Freeland
WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the "improper" American imposition of metals tariffs as leverage in the contentious NAFTA talks is no longer required b...
Apr 04, 2019
Blast at Russian elite military academy wounds 4
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Officials in Russia say an explosion inside an elite military academy in the country's second-largest city has wounded four people. An unidentified explosive device went off e...
Apr 04, 2019