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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
Quebec's Chantier Davie only shipyard to qualify for icebreaker work: Feds
OTTAWA - Quebec's Chantier Davie shipyard is on track to win potentially billions of dollars in federal work after the Liberal government announced this morning that it was the only yard to qualify&nb...
Dec 19, 2019
McConnell blasts House impeachment, pledges Senate stability
WASHINGTON - The top Senate Republican on Thursday denounced the "most unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassured Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the Un...
Dec 19, 2019
Indian police ban protests amid citizenship law outrage
NEW DELHI - Police detained several hundred protesters in some of India's biggest cities Thursday as they defied bans on assembly that authorities imposed to stop widespread demonstrations against a n...
Dec 19, 2019
Just 7 Democrats on stage for the latest presidential debate
LOS ANGELES - A winnowed field of Democratic presidential contenders takes the debate stage for a sixth and final time in 2019, as candidates seek to convince anxious voters that they are the party's ...
Dec 19, 2019
'Looking back, I can say I tried' Trauma and healing 10 years after Afghan blast
The shock waves of the flesh-ripping, metal-twisting blast that devastated so many Canadian lives on a quiet, rural road in southern Afghanistan 10 years ago still ripple with a force that's palp...
Dec 19, 2019