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Northern Indigenous leaders meet with banks over investment in Arctic energy
TORONTO - First Nations leaders from Yukon are meeting with bankers in Toronto this week to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd. "We are ...
Dec 19, 2019
LeRoy Memorial Rink commemorates fundraising goal with mortgage burning ceremony
Six years after the devastating fire that completely destroyed the LeRoy rink, the current facility is officially paid for in full.The community gathered over the weekend for a mortgage burning ceremo...
Dec 19, 2019 A red-carpet mortgage burning ceremony was held at the LeRoy Arena. (Facebook/Terri Ann Hamilton)
Halting 737 Max production will hit suppliers, airlines
As Boeing prepares to shutter much of a huge factory near Seattle that builds the grounded 737 Max jet, the economic hit is reverberating across the United States in places such as Wichita, Kansas, St...
Dec 19, 2019
Employers post more jobs in October in sign of solid economy
WASHINGTON - The number of available jobs jumped in October after hitting an 18-month low the previous month, a sign the job market remains strong. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of...
Dec 19, 2019
PM asks U.S. not to sign final trade deal with China until Canadians released
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has asked the United States not to sign any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been releas...
Dec 19, 2019
Ontario signs on to housing help from the federal Liberal government
OTTAWA - The federal government has signed the first of what it hopes will be 13 funding agreements for a new rent supplement for low-income households. The announcement today on the $1.4-billion...
Dec 19, 2019
CPL's York 9 FC signs Canadian international midfielder Chris Mannella
TORONTO - Chris Mannella is coming home. The former Toronto FC homegrown player, who found himself without a club after Ottawa Fury FC ceased operations, has signed with York 9 FC of the Canadian Prem...
Dec 19, 2019
Austrians sweep women's downhill training; Shiffrin opts out
VAL D'ISERE, France - An Austrian sweep of the top places was led by Ramona Siebenhofer in a training run Thursday for a World Cup downhill. Austrian skiers have won seven of the last 10 women's World...
Dec 19, 2019
German parliament calls for full ban of Hezbollah activities
BERLIN - Germany's parliament passed a resolution Thursday calling for a national ban on the activities of Hezbollah and for the Lebanese militant group to be put on the European Union's terrorist lis...
Dec 19, 2019
Lawyer: US charges against WikiLeaks' Assange 'political'
LONDON - Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court Thursday that he should not be extradited to the United States to face spying charges because the offences he is accused of ar...
Dec 19, 2019