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Paris Fashion Week: Chloe shows floral prints, ethnic motifs
PARIS - High-collared, fluid silhouettes teeming with detail: That's the recipe at Chloe, which showcased its latest winter collection at Paris Fashion Week Thursday. Some highlights of the fall-winte...
Feb 28, 2019
Singh eyes chance to ramp up pressure on Trudeau with byelection win
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh celebrated his byelection win the same way he rang in winning the NDP leadership race: on a dance floor. "We danced the night away," Singh said Tuesday morning in...
Feb 28, 2019
National Defence lowballing cost of used Aussie fighters: budget officer
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is poking holes in the Defence Department's cost estimates for buying and operating second-hand fighter jets from Australia, saying its own figures put the co...
Feb 28, 2019
Committee sets time for Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould will finally give her side of the SNC-Lavalin story on Wednesday, breaking almost three weeks of silence that has fuelled the anonymously sourced controversy and&nbs...
Feb 28, 2019
Wednesday's Scoreboard
Wednesday's GamesSJHLWeyburn 4, Melville 3 (OT)SMAAAHLBlazers 2, Regina 3WHLSwift Current 2, Calgary 3Lethbridge 5, PA 4 (OT)Red Deer 5, Regina 2NHLToronto 6 Edmonton 2Calgary 2 New Jersey 1Tampa Bay ...
Feb 28, 2019
Cohen returns to Capitol Hill after slamming Trump as liar
WASHINGTON - In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president's former lawyer cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex a...
Feb 28, 2019
Analysis: Even without a deal, Kim makes gains at summit
HANOI, Vietnam - As Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump took their seats across from each other at the negotiating table, the North Korean leader confidently told reporters he had a gut feeling the...
Feb 28, 2019
The lunch that never was: Trump's North Korea summit falters
HANOI, Vietnam - The table was set, with flowers in vases and menus tucked inside white napkins. Water glasses were filled. Wicker fans provided a cool breeze. But nobody came. "Schedule change," Whit...
Feb 28, 2019
Cohen prepared testimony: Trump is 'racist,' 'liar,' 'cheat'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer is preparing to tell a House committee Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to his rival Hillary Clin...
Feb 28, 2019
Booker Prize for fiction secures new financial backer
LONDON - Britain's leading literary award, the Booker Prize, found a new financial backer Thursday after its sponsor of almost two decades pulled out. Prize trustees said the Crankstart Foundation wil...
Feb 28, 2019