Murray Wood: Sask. farmers pay the price for Ottawa's gopher ban
Gophers are chewing through crops and profits, and farmers blame Ottawa's strychnine ban. They say the damage is out of ...
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'That's the plane': How the federal government reacted to the downing of Flight PS752
OTTAWA - Shortly before 10 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2020, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne peeked at his mobile phone during a particularly intense teleconference. A BBC report of a plane c...
Jan 08, 2021
Biden blames Trump for violence at Capitol that's shaken US
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has denounced the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as "domestic terrorists" and he blamed President Donald Trump for the violence that has shaken the nation'...
Jan 08, 2021
Capitol siege raises security worries for Biden inauguration
WASHINGTON - The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is intensifying scrutiny over security at the upcoming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden, which already has been reshaped by...
Jan 08, 2021
Stay or go? After Trump-fueled riot, aides debate early exit
WASHINGTON - A steady stream of Trump administration officials are beating an early path to the exits as a protest against the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol this week even as others wrestling with ...
Jan 08, 2021
Head of Chinese bank behind foreign building spree jailed
BEIJING - The former chairman of the main Chinese state bank behind Beijing's initiative to build railways and ports across dozens of Asian countries has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption...
Jan 07, 2021
More demand Illinois congresswoman who cited Hitler resign
CHICAGO - A growing number of Democrats called Thursday for the resignation of U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, a newly sworn-in Republican who quoted Adolf Hitler at a rally outside the U.S. Capito...
Jan 07, 2021
Iowa governor, aides appear in PR video for no-bid vendor
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa's governor and four aides helped make a marketing video for a Utah company that was awarded no-bid contracts for work on the coronavirus pandemic, a move that has raised allegat...
Jan 07, 2021
Law firm seeks support in call for President Trump's ouster
NEW YORK - A large Washington, D.C.-based law firm is asking other lawyers to join in a call for President Donald Trump's cabinet to oust him after rioting supporters of the president attacked and occ...
Jan 07, 2021
The day my 'second home,' the Capitol, was overtaken by mob
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Capitol is my second home. I have been covering the occupants of the building for an absurdly long period of time, the last 15 years spent mostly at a workspace just steps from t...
Jan 07, 2021
Several state lawmakers joined, observed US Capitol turmoil
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A West Virginia lawmaker who filmed himself and supporters of President Donald Trump storming into the U.S. Capitol is facing bipartisan calls for his resignation as federal prosec...
Jan 07, 2021
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