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N.W.T., federal government reach deal on caribou conservation plans
YELLOWKNIFE - Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have reached a deal on protecting threatened caribou. The deal gives the territory deadlines to come up with range plans for its boreal caribou ...
Mar 13, 2019
Ottawa professor who died in Ethiopia plane crash remembered for public outreach
Ottawa professor Pius Adesanmi, one of the 18 Canadians killed in Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines crash, is being remembered as a public intellectual whose outreach to Africans across the&n...
Mar 13, 2019
Trump: US grounding Boeing 737 Max 8, 9 after Ethiopia crash
WASHINGTON - The U.S. is issuing an emergency order Wednesday grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft "effective immediately," in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airliner that killed 1...
Mar 13, 2019
Kevin Vickers to announce Friday if he'll seek New Brunswick Liberal leadership
FREDERICTON - Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers is expected to announce Friday whether he intends to seek the Liberal leadership in New Brunswick. The retired ambassador to Irelan...
Mar 13, 2019
Ken Starr says he raised money for ex-player's rape defence
WACO, Texas - Former Baylor University President Ken Starr said Tuesday that he raised money on behalf of a former Baylor football player who was recently acquitted of sexual assault. Starr told the W...
Mar 13, 2019
Toronto Maple Leafs winger Kasperi Kapanen sidelined with a concussion
Toronto Maple Leafs winger Kasperi Kapanen has a concussion and will miss a second straight game on Wednesday night against the visiting Chicago Blackhawks. The 22-year-old native of Finland was ...
Mar 13, 2019
Stro Show: Blue Jays right-hander Stroman to get start on opening day
SARASOTA, Fla. - Right-hander Marcus Stroman will get the start on opening day for the Toronto Blue Jays. Manager Charlie Montoyo confirmed the decision before Wednesday's pr...
Mar 13, 2019
Chinese evidence behind canola impasse? 'So far we've heard nothing,' Carr says
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Jim Carr says Beijing has yet to provide an explanation for China's decision to block canola shipments from one of Canada's largest grain...
Mar 13, 2019
No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass doesn't faze Hadwin ahead of Players Championship
No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass is one of the signature holes on the PGA Tour. Although it's just 137 yards to the Island Green, the hole is surrounded on almost all sides by water and has a tiny bunker in fro...
Mar 13, 2019
Quebec's plan to reduce immigration levels won't help newcomers: study
MONTREAL - A Quebec think tank says the province's plan to cut immigration levels is misguided and will not accomplish its intended goal of better integrating newcomers. The Institut de recherche...
Mar 13, 2019