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Bloc leader calls on Canada to let exiled Catalan leader enter the country
MONTREAL - Separatism and national independence were on the menu Thursday at a Bloc Quebecois news conference in Montreal, but party leader Yves-Francois Blanchet wasn't talking about Quebec. Bla...
Oct 19, 2019
'A mess out here:' Manitoba farmers struggling with wet crops after snowstorm
WINNIPEG - More Manitoba residents saw their electricity restored Thursday - one week after a major snowstorm brought down power poles and transmission towers and delivered another wallop to...
Oct 19, 2019
GM workers to stay on picket line until vote on new contract
DETROIT - Striking General Motors workers will stay on the picket lines for at least another week until they vote on a tentative contract with the company. Factory-level officials from the United Auto...
Oct 19, 2019
Singh would use federal money to 'encourage' provinces on health services
WELLAND, Ont. - The billions of dollars the federal government transfers to provinces for health care give Ottawa leverage that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he'd use to push for better local ser...
Oct 19, 2019
Death in Battleford now being investigated as homicide
RCMP say they are now investigating the death of a man in Battleford as a homicide. Officers in the Battlefords and several specialized RCMP units continue to investigate the death of 27-year-old Ryan...
Oct 19, 2019
Trudeau defends record on Indigenous issues, as stump speech mentions are brief
HAMILTON - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is defending his record on Indigenous issues, which have received precious little attention in a 40-day federal election campaign that is nearly over...
Oct 19, 2019
Scheer promising carbon tax will be history by January if he gets majority
LITTLE HARBOUR, N.S. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer gave a glimpse Thursday of what kind of prime minister he might seek to be: one not tethered to conventions. He promised to do whatever it...
Oct 19, 2019
'Nonsense:' Experts weigh in on Scheer's claims about who can form government
OTTAWA - Experts on Canada's parliamentary system say Andrew Scheer should know better than to erroneously contend that whoever wins the most seats on Monday gets to form the government. The Cons...
Oct 19, 2019
Redden on the Raiders: The bus heads west
Two days and approximately 1,800 kilometres later, the Prince Albert Raiders are in Everett, WA to kick off a five-game road trip through the U.S. Division.The trip started Wednesday morning at the Ar...
Oct 19, 2019 Nolan Allan played against the Everett Silvertips as an affiliated player last season at the Art Hauser Centre. Allan and the Raiders clash with Everett on Saturday night. (Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff)
Quebec man found guilty of first-degree murder in slaying of ex-wife, stranger
ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2017 stabbing death of his ex-wife and the fatal beating of an elderly stranger in order to ...
Oct 19, 2019