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Spaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91
ROME - Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood gangster movies ...
Jul 06, 2020
Lac-Megantic to mark seventh anniversary of 2013 rail disaster with memorial site
Lac-Megantic will mark the seventh anniversary of a tragic rail disaster that claimed 47 lives by inaugurating a long-planned memorial space. On July 6, 2013, a runaway train hauling tanker cars loade...
Jul 06, 2020
1 ad, 3 accents: How Democrats aim to win Latino votes
WASHINGTON - The Spanish-language ads for Joe Biden used the same slogan to contrast him with President Donald Trump - "los cuentos no pagan las cuentas," a play on words that roughly means "telling s...
Jul 05, 2020
NHL, NHLPA agree on protocols to resume season
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Sunday that the NHL and NHL Players' Association have agreed on protocols to resume the season. Daly said the sides are still negotiating an ...
Jul 05, 2020
NHL, NHLPA agree on protocols to resume season
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Sunday that the NHL and NHL Players' Association have agreed on protocols to resume the season. Daly said the sides are still negotiating a c...
Jul 05, 2020
Sheriff: 2 dead, 8 hurt in South Carolina nightclub shooting
GREENVILLE, S.C. - A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff's official said. Two Greenville County sheriff's deputies noticed a distur...
Jul 05, 2020
Lawyer: Remains of missing Texas soldier identified
DALLAS - Army investigators have identified the body of a soldier who vanished more than two months ago from a base in Texas, according to a lawyer for the soldier's family. Remains found last week bu...
Jul 05, 2020
Young Syrian refugee gives back to Quebec by working at long-term care home
MONTREAL - George Chabo was just a teenager when the Syrian refugee arrived in Montreal in the winter of 2016, met first by Canadian Red Cross volunteers who supplied him and his family...
Jul 05, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sunday, July 5
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 2:23 p.m. ET on July 5, 2020: There are 105,536 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 55,863 confirmed (including 5,574 deaths, 25,346 res...
Jul 05, 2020
Tories, NDP lay out demands as Liberals prepare to reveal state of economy
OTTAWA - Opposition parties have laid out their demands as the federal Liberal government prepares to update Canadians on the state of the economy after four months of COVID-19. Wednesday's fiscal sna...
Jul 05, 2020