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Iraqi Kurds invite Canada to help train, equip peshmerga after being frozen out
OTTAWA - Canada is being invited to once again provide training to Iraq's Kurdish security forces, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian soldiers in the war against the Islamic State group bef...
Jun 25, 2019
Vancouver police ask for help over theft of high-end snake chairs
VANCOUVER - A pair of unusual armchairs valued at about $40,000 each were taken from a high-end furniture store and Vancouver police are asking for the public's help in finding them. Police say t...
Jun 25, 2019
New Ukraine president, and former actor, to meet Trudeau in Toronto
OTTAWA - Ukraine's new president will visit Toronto next week for a major international conference on his country's future that Canada is hosting, and where he will meet Prime Minister ...
Jun 25, 2019
Crowds gather as massive Pride parade takes over downtown Toronto
Toronto was abuzz on Sunday as a colourful crowd lined downtown streets to celebrate all things LGBTQ at the city's annual Pride parade. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who marched in the par...
Jun 25, 2019
Fertility doc used own sperm to inseminate patients: medical regulator
TORONTO - Ontario's medical regulator says a fertility doctor used his own sperm to inseminate several patients as well as the wrong sperm with several others, finding that he committed professional m...
Jun 25, 2019
'Wasn't on the radar:' Parents accused in son's death unaware he had meningitis
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The father of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis says he and his wife didn't realize their son had contracted the potentially deadly disease. David Stephan told a court in ...
Jun 25, 2019
David Saint-Jacques doing well after space flight: Canadian Space Agency
MONTREAL - The Canadian Space Agency says astronaut David Saint-Jacques is doing well as he continues his long journey home after a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station. The 49-...
Jun 25, 2019
Carter Center fundraiser to auction off big ticket items
LEESBURG, Va. - A guitar signed by the Rolling Stones, vacations to Hawaii, France and Martha's Vineyard and signed photographs of five U.S. presidents are among the items former President Jimmy Carte...
Jun 25, 2019
Powell says economy facing growing uncertainties
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the economic outlook has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over trade and global growth causing the central bank to re...
Jun 25, 2019
US home price growth slows for 13th straight month in April
WASHINGTON - U.S. home price gains slowed for the 13th straight month in April, evidence that weaker demand is keeping prices in check even as mortgage rates fall. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 2...
Jun 25, 2019