Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Trudeau names former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner as new consul general in Boston
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner to represent Canada as the country's consul general in Boston.Cuzner was an MP for Cape Breton for nearly 20 years but...
Oct 30, 2020
Class-action lawsuit in investment case can go ahead, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - A class-action suit over personal investments can proceed against a Montreal-based financial services firm, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Between 2005 and 2007, Ronald Asselin purcha...
Oct 30, 2020
Group launches legal action against N.B. government for greater abortion access
FREDERICTON - A national civil liberties group has filed legal notice in the first stage of a suit against the New Brunswick government for lack of access to abortion. The Canadian Civil Liberties Ass...
Oct 30, 2020
Federal parties rake in millions despite pandemic
OTTAWA - The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't stopped federal political parties from raking in millions of dollars in donations. Financial reports filed Friday with Elections Canada show that all the main par...
Oct 30, 2020
Race for Texas intensifies amid surging turnout, COVID cases
MCALLEN, Texas - Texas' surprising status as a battleground came into clearer focus on Friday as Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris devoted one of the race's final days to campaigning ...
Oct 30, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, Quebec nearly divorced Canada
OTTAWA - Twenty-five years ago today, Quebec came within a small margin of separating from Canada. The referendum on Oct. 30, 1995, saw 4.7 million Quebecers vote on whether the province should "becom...
Oct 30, 2020
In battleground Pennsylvania, Trump supporters are still all in for their president
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. - Along a scenic stretch of historic Lincoln Highway, a meandering two-lane strip of east-west pavement that runs through southern Pennsylvania, partisan devotion to Donald Trump is on...
Oct 30, 2020
Pompeo wraps up anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a five-nation, anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam on Friday with a call for regional unity to counter Beijing's growing assertiveness, a...
Oct 29, 2020
Developer tied to Texas AG says feds tampered with warrants
DALLAS - On a summer morning last year, FBI agents arrived at the home of a prominent real estate developer in Austin and began scouring the palatial French-style chateau for documents, videos and pho...
Oct 29, 2020
An Election Day role for National Guard? Maybe, but limited
WASHINGTON - Federal laws and long-standing custom generally leave the U.S. military out of the election process. But President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated warnings about widespread voting irregula...
Oct 29, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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