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High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as experts warn the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to...
Feb 11, 2020

Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort
NEW YORK - As debate rages around "American Dirt," the bestselling novel criticized for its portrait of Mexican life and culture, publishers are pledging to change a historically white industry as cri...
Feb 11, 2020

Venezuela opposition leader Guaidó returns home after tour
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid appeared to have breezed through security at an airport near Caracas on Tuesday, returning home without incident from a risky international...
Feb 11, 2020

High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as experts warn the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to...
Feb 11, 2020

Trump nominates new ambassador to Canada to fill post vacant since August
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has nominated a North Carolina Republican, physician and former diplomat as the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. The White House says Aldona Z. Wos, who is curr...
Feb 11, 2020

Alberta unloads crude-by-rail contracts signed under former NDP government
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government has unloaded crude-by-rail contracts signed under the previous NDP government, but details aren't being disclosed yet. His predecessor, Rache...
Feb 11, 2020

Calgary Stampeders active on busy opening day of CFL free agency period
TORONTO - John Hufnagel wasn't kidding. Traditionally, the Calgary Stampeders haven't been active when CFL free agency begins. But Hufnagel, the club's president/GM, told reporters Monday that&nb...
Feb 11, 2020

Oscar de la Renta opens, closes show with Bella Hadid
NEW YORK - Watching the Oscar de la Renta show unfold in the imposing setting of the New York Public Library in Manhattan, it was hard not to think back some 24 hours to a different Oscar: the Academy...
Feb 11, 2020

Anti-pipeline protesters blocking access to Vancouver ports served with injunction
Anti-pipeline protesters were served Sunday with a court injunction ordering them to stop blocking access to four ports in the Vancouver area, marking the latest development in what has become a natio...
Feb 11, 2020

New Brunswick's John Williamson decides against running for Tory leadership
OTTAWA - Another potential contender for leadership of the federal Conservatives is backing away from the race. John Williamson, a member of Parliament from New Brunswick, says he won't enter the cont...
Feb 11, 2020