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Champagne hopeful about UN Security Council bid despite stiff competition
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he's "cautiously optimistic" about Canada's chances of winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council this year as the governm...
Jan 24, 2020
Champagne hopeful about UN Security Council bid despite stiff competition
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he's "cautiously optimistic" about Canada's chances of winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council this year as the governm...
Jan 24, 2020
Quebec wants answers after convicted killer out on parole allegedly kills again
Quebec's justice minister wants answers from the federal government following the slaying of a 22-year-old woman, allegedly killed by a man previously convicted of murder and out on parole. Sonia...
Jan 24, 2020
Canadian aid worker's child-sex conviction in Nepal upheld; sentence cut
TORONTO - A prominent Canadian aid worker in Nepal has lost his appeal of a conviction for sexually assaulting two children but saw his sentence cut by one year to eight, members of his legal team sai...
Jan 24, 2020
Pentagon: 34 US troops had brain injuries from Iran's strike
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month's Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base, and that half of the troops...
Jan 24, 2020
Decision to bow out of leadership race weeks in the making: Poilievre
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre says weeks of uncertainty about whether he actually wanted to enter the party's leadership race came to a head as deadlines to sign contracts loomed. He ...
Jan 24, 2020
Memo to Trudeau prods Liberals to look at reviving vice-regal appointments board
OTTAWA - Senior officials advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have pressed him gently to rethink how the Liberals have been making vice-regal appointments. Under the Conservatives, there had been&n...
Jan 24, 2020
AP Exclusive: New US Border Patrol chief named
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol. Rodney Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained Friday by Th...
Jan 24, 2020
Trudeau taps Quebec senator as Liberal government's new rep in upper chamber
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is tapping Sen. Marc Gold, a constitutional law expert and former chair of the Jewish Federations of Canada, to serve as the Liberal government's representative ...
Jan 24, 2020
Leadership race or no, Tories will hold Liberal government to account: Scheer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the fact his party is now in a leadership race doesn't mean the Liberal government will get a free ride in the House of Commons. He says a minority...
Jan 24, 2020
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