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Boot Cooper from Tory caucus over comments on online hate: Liberal MP
OTTAWA - A Liberal MP says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer should eject colleague Michael Cooper from the Tory caucus over things the MP said about online hate in a parliamentary hearing last week. ...
Jun 03, 2019

Ex-governor's phone seized in Flint water probe
LANSING, Mich. - Authorities investigating Flint's water crisis have used search warrants to seize from storage the state-owned mobile devices of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current or former...
Jun 03, 2019

Ottawa hit with another tornado, residents complain they got no warning
OTTAWA - Numerous Ottawa residents say they didn't get emergency alerts before a tornado touched down in the east end of the city Sunday evening. Others say they got official warnings on their ce...
Jun 03, 2019

Canada OK with EU plan to help WTO deal with Trump disruption: Carr
OTTAWA - Canada's trade minister is endorsing a European Union plan to prevent the Trump administration from paralyzing the World Trade Organization's dispute-settlement body later this year. Jim Carr...
Jun 03, 2019

Serena bids early adieu at French, like Osaka before her
PARIS - Maybe it was the daunting deficit Serena Williams faced in the French Open's third round. Maybe it was the way her 20-year-old American opponent, Sofia Kenin, was questioning line calls. Eithe...
Jun 03, 2019

Feds begin payouts to informants for offshore tax intelligence
OTTAWA - The federal government has begun making payments to secret informants for intelligence that has so far brought in more than $19 million from offshore tax evaders. Newly re...
Jun 03, 2019

MMIW inquiry report represents "good first step," according to families with lost loved ones
The twin sister of a woman who was murdered in Prince Albert four years ago, says the final report from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIW) Inquiry represents a step in the righ...
Jun 03, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)

Yukon product Dylan Cozens blazing a trail and set to make history at NHL draft
Dylan Cozens wants to clear up a couple misconceptions about Whitehorse. Yukon's capital has real houses - not igloos - and working electricity. They even have, wait for ...
Jun 03, 2019

Missing, murdered women inquiry calls for justice system to review policies
OTTAWA - The final report of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is calling for broad and widespread changes to the way the justice system handles cases, ...
Jun 03, 2019

Town of Nipawin releases 2019 Municipal Property Tax Rates
The Town of Nipawin has officially announced how the 2.4 per cent tax increase for this year will be spread out through the Municipal Property Tax rates.The increase of 2.4 per cent is fairly average,...
Jun 03, 2019 (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)