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Liberals' bump in child benefits fuels poverty rate drop, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - The national statistics office says fewer children are living in poverty and it is connecting the drop to the Liberal government's signature child benefit. The Liberals introduced the in...
Feb 26, 2019
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Bangladesh police identify suspect in failed plane hijacking
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidn...
Feb 26, 2019
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City council gives nod to community grants for non-profits
North Battleford city council approved community grant requests for the Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre (BDFRC)/ Empty Stocking Fund, and the Battlefords and Area Sexual Assault Centre (...
Feb 26, 2019 North Battleford councillors Len Taylor, left, and Kent Lindgren at a recent meeting. Council approved granting two non profits that serve the vulnerable with support for 2019. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Angela Brown
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Bisons' Iizuka attempting to become first female to play U Sports football
Reina Iizuka is Canadian university football's best-kept secret. The five-foot-seven, 160-pound defensive back is entering her third year at the University of Manitoba, having been ...
Feb 26, 2019
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Nigeria votes for a 2nd day in places as death toll rises
KANO, Nigeria - Nigeria faced a second day of voting in scattered areas Sunday in a presidential election seen as too close to call, while the death toll from vote-related violence mounted in Africa's...
Feb 26, 2019
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Trudeau looking forward to Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was important to waive solicitor-client privilege and cabinet onfidentiality to allow for former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to tell her side o...
Feb 26, 2019
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Liberals celebrate Quebec byelection win while NDP relieved over Singh's success
OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers expressed delight this morning over securing a win in a Quebec riding formerly held by Tom Mulcair while the NDP breathed a collective sigh of relief over their lead...
Feb 26, 2019
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Seinfeld sues California classic car dealer over '58 Porsche
NEW YORK - Jerry Seinfeld sued a California dealer in classic cars Monday, saying the company has left the comedian stranded in a dispute over whether a 1958 Porsche he sold is authentic. Seinfeld sou...
Feb 26, 2019
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Cohen expected to claim lying, racism and cheating by Trump
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to give a behind-the-scenes account of what he will claim is Trump's lying, racism and cheating, and possibly e...
Feb 26, 2019
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Pope vows to end abuse coverups but victims disappointed
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with "the wrath of God" felt by the faithful, end the coverups by th...
Feb 26, 2019