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Major League Soccer releases full schedule for 25th anniversary season
Toronto FC will have to wait until July 18 to have another crack at the MLS champion Seattle Sounders. Vancouver misses out on facing Inter Miami CF while Montreal will have to wait a year to play Nas...
Dec 19, 2019
No bond for ex-Mexico security official charged with bribery
DALLAS - A judge in Texas ordered Mexico's former top security official to remain held without bond Tuesday as he awaits trial for allegedly accepting a fortune in drug-money bribes for letting the no...
Dec 19, 2019
2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: A star-making year for Majors
NEW YORK - How is a great actor made? For Jonathan Majors, the 30-year-old breakout star of "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," it started in drama school. It swelled with the discovery of August W...
Dec 19, 2019
Mayor signs deed for Quebec City's first Muslim cemetery, set to open in spring
Quebec City's mayor has signed a deed of sale for a parcel of land that will soon become the region's first Muslim cemetery. Mayor Regis Labeaume had promised the land to the city's Muslim c...
Dec 19, 2019
Parliament's budget watchdog raises flags over Liberals' fiscal wiggle room
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog says the government's updated fiscal outlook raises questions about whether the Liberals can keep their pledge to manage the national debt - or delive...
Dec 19, 2019
US probes 4 automakers in new Takata air bag recall
DETROIT - The U.S. government's highway safety agency has launched an investigation into four automakers that have a potentially deadly type of Takata air bag inflator in their vehicles but have yet t...
Dec 19, 2019
Canada looking at military engineers, on-the-ground training for peacekeeping
OTTAWA - Canada is exploring the possible deployment of military engineers as the newly re-elected Liberal government takes a fresh look at ways to step up its support for United Nations peacekeeping,...
Dec 19, 2019
U.S. software giant checking on logo used by Alberta's energy war room
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy war room says it is pulling and replacing its logo after learning that it was already being used by another company.The war room, officially known as the Canadian Energy Ce...
Dec 19, 2019
Meadow Lake Woodlanders learn winter survival skills in the woods
The Meadow Lake Woodlanders Junior Forest Wardens (MLWJFW) are gearing up for some winter skills training and celebrating their upcoming 20th anniversary in Meadow Lake.Neil Marsh, fire chief and coor...
Dec 19, 2019 (submitted photo/Neil Marsh, Fire Chief)
Big oil, big banks and environment leaders link up to solve climate crisis
OTTAWA - In a courtroom in British Columbia Monday, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stop...
Dec 19, 2019