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Trudeau names outgoing NDP MP Murray Rankin to lead new security-review agency
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making an outgoing New Democrat MP the chair of a new national-security review agency. Murray Rankin has been the member of Parliament for Victoria since 2012...
Jul 24, 2019

Thunderstorm watch issued for P.A. area
As if a heat warning weren't enough to contend with, Mother Nature is throwing another monkey wrench into the works.As of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Environment Canada issued a warning of potential thunder...
Jul 24, 2019 P.A. residents should be wary as a stormy clouds could turn into a potential thunderstorm. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Canadian government faces call to revoke funding for giant telescope in Hawaii
OTTAWA - The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says Canada should bail out of a plan to build a large new telescope in Hawaii on land claimed as sacred by Indigenous Hawaiians. In an open letter to Prime Mi...
Jul 24, 2019

Canadian government faces call to revoke funding for giant telescope in Hawaii
OTTAWA - The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says Canada should bail out of a plan to build a large new telescope in Hawaii on land claimed as sacred by Indigenous Hawaiians. In an open letter to Prime Mi...
Jul 24, 2019

Deaths as bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor's office
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu's mayor and detonated explosives strapped to his waist, killing several people and badly wounding the mayor, Somali police sai...
Jul 24, 2019

The Canadian Press appoints veteran Andrea Baillie as editor-in-chief
TORONTO - The Canadian Press is promoting managing editor Andrea Baillie to editor-in-chief, marking the first time a woman will oversee editorial operations at the national n...
Jul 24, 2019

Expert warns of Huawei monopoly in North, leaving residents vulnerable to China
Ottawa is creating conditions for the telecom giant Huawei to create a monopoly on high-speed internet in Canada's Far North, leaving its residents vulnerable to Beijing's will, says a leading analyst...
Jul 24, 2019

Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser ready for UFC debut in Edmonton
Mixed martial arts has taken Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser around the world. On Saturday, it returns him to his backyard as the Alberta heavyweight makes his UFC debut at UFC 240 in Edmonton. The 27-ye...
Jul 24, 2019

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba
The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...
Jul 24, 2019

Meek Mill's conviction thrown out, granted new trial
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania appeals court has thrown out rapper Meek Mill's decade-old conviction in a drug and gun case. The unanimous three-judge opinion Wednesday grants the rapper born Robert Wi...
Jul 24, 2019