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High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as experts warn the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to...
Feb 11, 2020
Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort
NEW YORK - As debate rages around "American Dirt," the bestselling novel criticized for its portrait of Mexican life and culture, publishers are pledging to change a historically white industry as cri...
Feb 11, 2020
Venezuela opposition leader Guaidó returns home after tour
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid appeared to have breezed through security at an airport near Caracas on Tuesday, returning home without incident from a risky international...
Feb 11, 2020
High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as experts warn the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to...
Feb 11, 2020
Trump nominates new ambassador to Canada to fill post vacant since August
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has nominated a North Carolina Republican, physician and former diplomat as the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. The White House says Aldona Z. Wos, who is curr...
Feb 11, 2020
Alberta unloads crude-by-rail contracts signed under former NDP government
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government has unloaded crude-by-rail contracts signed under the previous NDP government, but details aren't being disclosed yet. His predecessor, Rache...
Feb 11, 2020
Calgary Stampeders active on busy opening day of CFL free agency period
TORONTO - John Hufnagel wasn't kidding. Traditionally, the Calgary Stampeders haven't been active when CFL free agency begins. But Hufnagel, the club's president/GM, told reporters Monday that&nb...
Feb 11, 2020
Oscar de la Renta opens, closes show with Bella Hadid
NEW YORK - Watching the Oscar de la Renta show unfold in the imposing setting of the New York Public Library in Manhattan, it was hard not to think back some 24 hours to a different Oscar: the Academy...
Feb 11, 2020
Nanaimo's rent becomes more expensive as affordable housing strategy takes shape
NANAIMO - The City believes it is on track to address the growing rental market crisis in Nanaimo, however the finish line continues moving further away.A report from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing...
Feb 11, 2020 The challenge of finding a place to live for Nanaimo rentals continue to become harder as monthly rent increases continue to outpace available suites. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Anti-pipeline protesters blocking access to Vancouver ports served with injunction
Anti-pipeline protesters were served Sunday with a court injunction ordering them to stop blocking access to four ports in the Vancouver area, marking the latest development in what has become a natio...
Feb 11, 2020