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Levesque wins vacant council seat
Meadow Lake city council byelection results are in and the former administrator and interim city manager Richard Levesque is filling the vacant seat. Levesque garnered 198 votes, Anthony Vandenburg, 8...
Nov 21, 2019 Richard Levesque will join city council (Submitted / Richard Levesque)
Sweden drops Assange rape investigation after 9 years
STOCKHOLM - Sweden on Tuesday dropped its investigation into an alleged rape by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in prison in Britain, because too much time has elapsed since the acc...
Nov 21, 2019
Key witnesses will cap intense week in impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON - House impeachment investigators will hear on Thursday from two key witnesses who grew alarmed by how President Donald Trump and others in his orbit were conducting foreign policy in Ukrai...
Nov 21, 2019
Prince Andrew faces more disgrace as business backers leave
LONDON - Britain's Prince Andrew faced further disgrace Tuesday as charitable partners and educational institutions began to distance themselves from him amid unfavourable fallout from an interview on...
Nov 21, 2019
Canada prepping for second-chance Olympic baseball qualifier in March
When Scott Mathieson announced his retirement from professional baseball last month, he was already envisioning a temporary comeback - and a better way to officially end his playing career. The 3...
Nov 21, 2019
Bringing Canadian university football final back to Grey Cup week on CFL radar
CALGARY - The Vanier Cup will become part of Grey Cup again if the CFL commissioner gets his way. Incorporating the Canadian university football championship into Grey Cup week is high on Randy A...
Nov 21, 2019
Trans Mountain received $320M in government subsidies in first half 2019: report
VANCOUVER - The Trans Mountain pipeline received $320 million in subsidies from the Canadian and Alberta governments in the first half of 2019, says a new report by an economic institute that analyzes...
Nov 21, 2019
Police officer fatally shot investigating home invasion
DETROIT - A police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded while responding to a home invasion on Detroit's West Side, authorities announced late Wednesday. The officers were searching the ho...
Nov 21, 2019
Kay European group mulls status of Hungary’s ruling party
ZAGREB, Croatia - The new president of the European People's Party says the status of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's populist party within the influential group will be decided early next yea...
Nov 21, 2019
Canadian students urged to flee Hong King and a modest hero; In-The-News Nov. 19
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 19. What we are watching i...
Nov 21, 2019