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China announces 75.8 per cent tariffs on Canadian canola
China announced a 75.8 per cent preliminary tariff on Canadian canola on Tuesday, following an anti-dumping investigation launched last year in response to Canada's tax on Chinese electric vehicles. C...
Aug 12, 2025 Canola plants bloom in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., Friday, July 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Taylor Swift announces 12th studio album, 'The Life of a Showgirl'
NEW YORK (AP) - Look what you made her do - Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired...
Aug 12, 2025 Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour June 21, 2024, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
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A UFC fight at the White House? Dana White says it's happening as part of deal with Paramount
Hours after Paramount and UFC announced a billion-dollar rights deal, Dana White said he had yet to hear from his friend, President Donald Trump, on his thoughts about the fight company's new streamin...
Aug 12, 2025 Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, speaks during a news conference following the UFC 313 mixed martial arts event Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Pete Carroll, Aaron Rodgers head a list of familiar faces in new places this NFL season
Aaron Rodgers joined Pittsburgh. Davante Adams went to Hollywood. Cooper Kupp is in Seattle. Russell Wilson's latest stop is the Big Apple. But the most veteran face in a new place this NFL season is ...
Aug 11, 2025 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) and quarterback coach Tom Arth watch a drill during NFL football training camp in Latrobe, Pa., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he's placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation's capital safer. Tru...
Aug 11, 2025 President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Transcripts of grand jury that indicted Epstein ex-girlfriend Maxwell won't be unsealed, judge says
NEW YORK (AP) - Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell won't be released, a judge decided Mo...
Aug 11, 2025 A board outlining the case against Ghislaine Maxwell is seen during a news conference to announce charges against Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Three Sept. 11 victims' remains are newly identified, nearly 24 years later
NEW YORK (AP) - Three 9/11 victims' remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long effort to ret...
Aug 08, 2025 In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong, file)
Carney announces 20% increase in military starting pay
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will boost entry-level pay for Canadian Armed Forces privates by 20 per cent for the regular force and 13 per cent for reservists. Other military members...
Aug 08, 2025 A soldier of the 41 Canadian Brigade Group carries ammunition for a C9 squad automatic weapon during training at CFB Suffield, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before she killed 3 relatives with toxic mushrooms
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal...
Aug 08, 2025
Trump's tariff hike hits the world days after U.S. struck Canada with higher duty
U.S. President Donald Trump marked 200 days back in office today by again hitting nations around the world with increased tariffs, days after slapping Canada with a 35 per cent duty. Trump escalated h...
Aug 07, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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