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Floors collapse at Russian university in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian emergency authorities say part of the roof and several floors of a university building in Russia's second-largest city have collapsed, but there were no immediate indi...
Feb 16, 2019
Plenty of Canadian content as Seattle hosts Toronto in Major League Rugby play
Canada captain Phil Mack's welcome will likely be warm and short Sunday when the Toronto Arrows visit his Seattle Seawolves in Major League Rugby play. Introductions won't be needed. Thirteen of the A...
Feb 16, 2019
Quebec, Montreal governments welcome proposal for new baseball stadium
MONTREAL - The initial enthusiasm from Quebec's Coalition Avenir Quebec government for a proposed Major League Baseball stadium in Montreal was slightly tempered Thursday after an oppos...
Feb 16, 2019
Liberals want quick results from new skills-training think-tank in Toronto
OTTAWA - Federal efforts to calm anxiety about a rapidly changing job market took another step Thursday as the Liberals launched a new agency ahead of a federal budget that will put a h...
Feb 16, 2019
Quebec, Montreal governments welcome proposal for new baseball stadium
MONTREAL - The initial enthusiasm from Quebec's Coalition Avenir Quebec government for a proposed Major League Baseball stadium in Montreal was slightly tempered Thursday after an oppos...
Feb 16, 2019
Violent protests in Haiti trap more than 100 Canadian tourists, aid workers
MONTREAL - Ottawa-based physician Emilio Bazile says food is running low for him and his 10-member medical team who have been trapped in southwest Haiti after protesters blocked major highwa...
Feb 16, 2019
Teacher who recorded students with pen camera is guilty of voyeurism: high court
OTTAWA - A high-school teacher who used a pen camera to surreptitiously take videos of female students is guilty of voyeurism, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In a ground-br...
Feb 16, 2019
London Fashion Week: Alexa Chung shows quirky classics
London Fashion Week is picking up pace with Alexa Chung, Jasper Conran and other designers offering catwalk shows Saturday, to be followed by the House of Holland and Simone Rocha. The spectacle is br...
Feb 16, 2019
UK's May suffers embarrassing defeat on Brexit strategy
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered an embarrassing defeat by lawmakers Thursday in a vote that left her bid to secure a European Union divorce deal stuck between an intransigent EU a...
Feb 16, 2019
In El Chapo's state, people see little change with verdict
CULIACAN, Mexico - U.S. officials are hailing the conviction of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as a victory for the Mexican people, but in the drug lord's home state of Sinaloa, cradle to his powerful cart...
Feb 16, 2019