Murray Wood: Of Easter bunny bells and Juicy Fruit gum
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China suspends more penalties on US goods after trade truce
BEIJING - China on Friday suspended more punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. industrial goods in response to a truce in its trade war with Washington that threatened global economic growth. Financial ...
Feb 21, 2020
US, Taliban truce takes effect, setting stage for peace deal
ISLAMABAD - A temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban took effect on Friday, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal next week aimed at ending 18 years of war in Afg...
Feb 21, 2020
Trudeau says time for blockades to end, Indigenous leaders to work with government
OTTAWA - Protesters have left a site south of Montreal where they had been blockading railway tracks since Wednesday. The end of the blockade Friday night followed the arrival of r...
Feb 21, 2020
Cruise-ship evacuees arrive for quarantine in Canada as first Wuhan evacuees let go
OTTAWA - A plane carrying 129 Canadians and their families who have spent weeks confined to cabins aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan landed on Canadian soil Friday morning. ...
Feb 21, 2020
Trump not a 'Parasite' fan, praises 'Gone with the Wind'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is apparently not a fan of Oscar winner "Parasite," his biggest complaint being that the movie was made in South Korea. Trump started talking about the Academy Awar...
Feb 20, 2020
Woman returning from Iran is B.C.'s sixth case of new coronavirus
VICTORIA - A sixth case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia after a woman in her 30s returned to the province this week from travel in Iran. Provincial health officer ...
Feb 20, 2020
1 trillion euros: EU leaders get into big fight over budget
BRUSSELS - European leaders argued into the early hours of Friday about how to spend and share some 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) over the next seven years. Their first summit since Britain quit th...
Feb 20, 2020
First Canadian coronavirus case now cleared of the virus: health officials
TORONTO - The first person in Canada to test positive for the novel coronavirus has now been completely cleared of the virus. Ontario health officials say the man in his 50s has now had two negative t...
Feb 20, 2020
Government needs to produce plan for dealing with veterans' backlog: Ombudsman
OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is urging the federal government to explain clearly how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to ...
Feb 20, 2020
Freeland agrees to NDP trade pitch in return for new NAFTA support: letter
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada's trade negotiations more "transparent," by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of ...
Feb 20, 2020
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...