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After knocking on 10,000 doors in Lac-Saint-Jean, Liberals eyeing more Quebec seats
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raises the hand of Liberal candidate Richard Hebert during a by-election campaign rally in the Quebec riding of Lac-Saint-Jean on Oct. 19.
Dallas Stars top Calgary Flames on Radulov’s power-play goal in third period
Calgary Flames left wing Tanner Glass (15) chases after the puck with Dallas Stars right wing Tyler Pitlick (18) during the first period at Scotiabank Saddledome.
Radulov's third period goal lifts Dallas Stars over Calgary Flames 2-1
Dallas Stars right wing Alexander Radulov (47) from Russia, celebrates his goal with defenceman John Klingberg (3) from Sweden, and left wing Jamie Benn (14) during third period NHL hockey action against the Calgary Flames in Calgary, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Mattis says threat of nuclear attack by N.Korea accelerating
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attends the 49th Security Consultative Meeting ( SCM) with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)
QMJHL Roundup: Harvey, Bergeron help Huskies to 1-0 overtime win vs. Titan
Metis artifacts on eBay prompt sorrow and skepticism from community
Blue Jackets rally to beat Winnipeg 2-1 in overtime
Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, left, of Russia, stops a shot against Winnipeg Jets forward Bryan Little during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
USports Football: QB Hugo Richard helps Laval top Concordia 46-14
Powell’s late touchdown run leads Redblacks to win over Tiger-Cats
Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Luke Tasker (17) gets upended by Ottawa Redblacks defensive back Antoine Pruneau (6) during first half CFL action in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017.
Devils rally after losing two-goal lead to defeat Senators
Drew Stafford #18 of the New Jersey Devils scores on the shoot out against Mike Condon #1 of the Ottawa Senators at the Prudential Center on October 27, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey.
Josh Anderson scores in overtime to lift Blue Jackets over Jets
Winnipeg Jets centre Marko Dano (56) looks to pass against the Columbus Blue Jackets during the third period at Nationwide Arena.
Powell's late touchdown run lifts Redblacks to 41-36 win over Tiger-Cats
Ottawa Redblacks running back William Powell (29) kicks his feet in celebration as he runs in the end zone after scoring a touchdown against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during second half CFL action in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Stafford, Bratt score in shootout as Devils top Senators 5-4
Former President Obama called for jury duty in Chicago
Former U.S. President Barack Obama campaigns in support of Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam, Democratic candidate for governor, at a rally with supporters in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. October 19, 2017.
Australia foreign chief stands in for PM after deputy ousted
Former president Obama called for jury duty in Chicago
FILE - This Thursday Oct. 19, 2017 file photo shows former President Barack Obama, left, as he shares a laugh with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov., Ralph Northam, during a rally in Richmond, Va. Northam may have a politician's dream background, but he's still struggling with how to define himself in the age of Trump. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Canadian television pioneer 'Your pet Juliette' dies at 91 in Vancouver
Husband and wife plead guilty to sexually exploiting toddler
North Korean 'masterminds' evade Kim Jong Nam murder trial
Conservative website with Republican ties funded research that led to Trump dossier
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, left, leave the East Room of the White House in Washington, after speaking on the opioid crisis, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017.
Prairie fare finds a home at Fence and Post in Cochrane
The vegetable tart is both flaky and dry, and could use a sauce of some sort to complement the overroasted ingredients.
Michael Nehass, Indigenous man set free after lengthy solitary time, is back in jail
Michael Nehass's case raised troubling questions about the use of solitary confinement and the treatment of an inmate who is both Indigenous and mentally ill – issues that have bedevilled correctional systems across the country of late.
Liberals table budget bill to join China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Bill C-63 enacts a wide range of measures including a new law called the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Agreement Act, which sets the terms for Canada’s relationship with the emerging bank.
Subaru chief says inspections were flawed, like Nissan's
Japanese automaker Subaru’s Chief Executive and President, Yasuyuki Yoshinaga bows during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Yoshinaga said Friday the company’s vehicle inspections have been flawed for years, carried out by workers unauthorized to do the task. (Daisuke Suzuki/Kyodo News via AP)
BC Liberal leadership candidates Stone, de Jong advocate for fixes to housing, child care
BC Liberal leadership candidates Mike de Jong, Andrew Wilkinson, Dianne Watts, Sam Sullivan, Michael Lee and Todd Stone (left to right) pose before taking the stage for the first leadership debate in Surrey, B.C., on Oct. 15, 2017.
New harassment claims against 'Game Change' journalist
B.C. fish farm monitoring under review after dispute between scientists
A protest banner hangs on a fish farm on Midsummer Island, B.C. Two scientists are clashing over a viral disease they both detected in farmed salmon and how the Animal Health Centre work with the aquaculture industry has influenced how that disease was reported by the lab.
Oil-export hopes fade as Trans Mountain pipeline delays mount
Pipes are seen at the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain facility in Edmonton, Alta., on April 6, 2017.
Trump dossier research triggered by website with GOP ties
File-This May 12, 2014, file photo shows Paul Singer, founder and CEO of hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation, speaking at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, in New York. A conservative website with strong ties to the Republican establishment first retained the firm that investigated Donald Trump’s past, and ultimately produced a dossier that alleged a compromised relationship between the president and the Kremlin. The Washington Free Beacon on Friday. Oct. 27, 2017, confirmed it had originally funded research compiled by the firm Fusion GPS. But leaders from the Free Beacon, which is funded in large part by the Republican donor Singer, insisted that none of the early research it received appears in the dossier released later in the year detailing explosive allegations, many uncorroborated, about Trump compiled by a former British spy. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Federal government welcomes Manitoba’s carbon-tax plan, with a warning
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, seen in the House of Commons in June, said Friday, “We’ve made it clear that for a price to work, it has to keep on increasing."
Texas attorney general won't face charges in bribery probe
Southern Alberta couple whose daughter nearly died from infection gets 1 year
Municipalities, B.C. police departments want cut of marijuana revenue
Marijuana and related goods are seen at Weeds Glass & Gifts in Vancouver in 2015.
AP source: Tsai agrees to deal for purchase of Brooklyn Nets
The grandstand at Taylor Field, longtime home to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, falls to demolition
The west-side grandstand at Taylor Field is down as deconstruction of the stadium continues in Regina, Friday, October 27, 2017.
The Latest: Analyst sees profit motive in opioid case
Canada under pressure to lead Interpol reform after Bill Browder repeatedly targeted by Putin
Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France.
The Latest: Doomed sailboat had communications failures
CORRECTS NAME TO TASHA FUIAVA-In this Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 photo, sailors from the USS Ashland approach a sailboat with two Honolulu women and their dogs aboard as they are rescued after being lost at sea for several months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti. The U.S. Navy rescued the women on Wednesday after a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted them about 900 miles southeast of Japan on Tuesday and alerted the U.S. Coast Guard. The women, identified by the Navy as Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava, lost their engine in bad weather in late May, but believed they could still reach Tahiti. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Clay/U.S. Navy via AP)
Award honours Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s defence of Charter rights
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has announced she will step aside on Dec. 15, nine months before she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Judge sides with developers of Washington coal terminal
FILE- This May 12, 2005, file photo, shows the port of Longview on the Columbia River at Longview, Wash. A judge says Washington state's Department of Natural Resources acted arbitrarily when it blocked a sublease sought by developers of a proposed coal-export terminal near Longview. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
The Latest: Conflicting accounts over Confederate plaque
Former Winnipeg TV news director facing new bank robbery charges in Regina
A suspect is shown in a screengrab from video in a handout from the Medicine Hat Police Service Facebook page. A former Winnipeg television news director is facing more bank robbery charges.Regina police charged Stephen Vogelsang on Friday with three separate bank robberies in that city. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook-Medicine Hat Police Service MANDATORY CREDIT
Alberta NDP to introduce cannabis legislation in fall sitting
NDP government House Leader Brian Mason said Friday the province will introduce two pieces of cannabis legislation in the fall sitting.
Guatemala judge orders former president tried for corruption
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti, stand on a stage at the end of a rally, in Escuintla, Guatemala. On Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, a judge in Guatemala has sent the former president Baldetti to trial for corruption involving an alleged scheme in which businesses paid bribes to avoid customs duties. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Cancer survivor, World Series champ Rizzo is Clemente winner
Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, right, hugs Vera Clemente after winning the 2017 Roberto Clemente Award before Game 3 of baseball's World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Lawmaker blasts video game allowing fantasy pipeline attacks
Stephen Harper blasts Trudeau government for ‘napping on NAFTA’
Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington on March 26, 2017. Stephen Harper has come out against his successor's handling of NAFTA negotiations with the United States.
On sex-ed curriculum, Alberta Catholic educators are out of step with the real world
Gary Mason
Ukraine's prime minister seeks to change his country’s narrative in Canada
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, seen in Berlin in June, 2016, will address Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a number of Canadian business leaders when he arrives in Ottawa on Saturday.
Judge allows new route to challenge Mississippi LGBT law
Police looking for 4 men who used bear spray during theft at mall; 6 injured
Four male suspects, wanted for robbery involving bear-spray, are shown in this handout photo taken from surveillance video in Airdrie, Alta., on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - RCMP
He may be the most transformative team executive in Toronto’s modern sports history
TFC general manager Tim Bezbatchenko is living the dream. No one second-guesses him any more now that he’s led the worst team in history to powerhouse status.
Young girl's death changes way Illinois manages abuse cases
Minnesota kids in child care homes to be fingerprinted
San Francisco tenants win $3.5M in wrongful eviction case
JFK files release is Trump's latest clash with spy agencies
Part of a file, dated Nov. 24, 1963, quoting FBI director J. Edgar Hoover as he talks about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, released for the first time on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, is photographed in Washington. The public is getting a look at thousands of secret government files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination, but hundreds of other documents will remain under wraps for now. The government was required by Thursday to release the final batch of files related to Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. But President Donald Trump delayed the release of some of the files, citing security concerns. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Meet Toronto’s deputants, a little band of oddballs and obsessives who help keep politicians honest
Steve Munro has been making deputations at Toronto City Hall since the 1970s and is renowned for his transit knowledge.
The Latest: Judge hears about asylum seekers' detentions
This undated photo provided by Yaquelin Barrueta via the New York Civil Liberties Union, shows Johan Barrios Ramos, a 41-year-old Cuban who was held in detention in the U.S. after arriving from Cuba where, he said, he was imprisoned for "anti-Cuba" activities that included his involvement with political opposition. (Yaquelin Barrueta/New York Civil Liberties Union via AP)
Alberta United Conservative leadership contenders vow to band together post-vote
Alberta Wildrose leader Brian Jean ,left, and Alberta PC leader Jason Kenney walk in to a press conference to announce a unity deal between the two in Edmonton on Thursday, May 18, 2017. Alberta new United Conservatives pick a new leader in Calgary Saturday, and all three contenders say job one afterward will be to join forces. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Saskatchewan Roughriders' old stadium goes out with a bang after 80 years
The west-side grandstand at Taylor Field comes down as deconstruction of the stadium continues in Regina, Friday, October 27, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
How The Globe found that fishing was Canada's most deadly sector
From 1999 through 2016, 213 people working in commercial fishing died on the job. (Each figure represents one life lost).
Investigation: It can now be called the deadliest industry in Canada
Crab harvester Andre Bourgeois untangles a rope while unloading a trap on July 14, 2017, the season's first day. The boat is outside of Cheticamp Harbour in Cheticamp, N.S.
Ky. advocates ask Trump official for more opioid resources
Acting Health and Human Services Secretary Eric Hargan, center, speaks with University of Kentucky HealthCare Vice President Mark Birdwhistell, left, and project manager Beth Snider, right, at the Polk-Dalton Clinic on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, in Lexington, Kentucky. Hargan toured the facility one day after signing an order declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency. The clinic includes a program that provides drug treatment to pregnant women and their children who are addicted to opioid-based drugs. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)
UN expert: Anti-gay sex laws wane; rights 'crucible' endures
New-look Capitals searching for identity, answers as struggles continue
Washington Capitals' goalie Braden Holtby makes a save against the Vancouver Canucks during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver on October 26, 2017. After a summer of change that saw no fewer than five key players wave goodbye, the new-look Washington Capitals continue to search for their identity -- whatever that is. Winners of back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, the Capitals sit with a pedestrian 4-5-1 record, including a recent 1-3-1 run, as the first month of the season nears a close. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ric Ernst
True Religion Brand Jeans emerges from bankruptcy protection
Guilty plea in crash that hurt 32 in Mardi Gras parade crowd
File-Neilson Rizutto is seen in an undated file photo provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. The driver of a pickup truck that plowed into a crowd of parade watchers at a February Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 .Sentencing is set for Jan. 12 for 25-year-old Neilson Rizzuto. He entered guilty pleas Friday to felony charges of first-degree vehicular negligent injury, plus a misdemeanor charge. Last month, he had pleaded guilty to 13 misdemeanors in connection with the crash. Each of the 11 felony counts carries up to five years in prison. (Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)
With unusual practice, Babcock looks to send a message to restive Leafs
After a brisk 24-minute practice Friday, Toronto coach Mike Babcock said, “I didn’t want anybody out there wasting any energy fooling around. I want it at game-time."
Major health provider sees big opioid prescription decline
Allison Suttle, chief medical officer at Sanford Health, talks about the system's opioid prescriptions in Sioux Falls, S.D., Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Sanford providers wrote 18 percent fewer prescriptions for opioids in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the first quarter of 2016. (AP Photo/James Nord)
'Napping on NAFTA': Harper blasts Trudeau government handling of negotiations
Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington on March 26, 2017. Stephen Harper has come out against his successor's handling of NAFTA negotiations with the United States. He criticizes the Trudeau Liberals in a memo titled, "Napping on NAFTA." The former prime minister says the NAFTA talks are going, in his words, "very badly," that the talks are in "real trouble," and the Liberal government had better get its head around this reality. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jose Luis Magana
Kansas proposes work requirement in new version of Medicaid
Streetwise newsletter: The week’s best reads: Aecon, Saputo, Brookfield
The Bay Street sign is shown in the heart of the financial district as people walk by in Toronto.
Nexa fills its coffers to the brim with third-biggest mining IPO in TSX history
On its first day of trading, shares in Nexa Resources SA, which is the world’s fourth-largest zinc miner, a, closed at $17.40 (U.S.) a share in New York, up 9 per cent from its $16 IPO price. It closed at $22.24 (Canadian) in Toronto.
The Gulf’s buyout king, Arif Masood Naqvi, goes where others fear to tread
Arif Masood Naqvi, seen in his London office, founded private-equity firm The Abraaj Group in 2002. Today, it has $11-billion in assets under management over 200 investments, covering areas such as food, fashion, education and medicine.
Trial hears RCMP told suspect they believed he shot parents, sister in head
GOP faith ambassador quits, complains of priorities of RNC
Bullish on Xerox
Bullish on Xerox
'It’s going to encourage more hate': Women in Quebec who wear niqab speak out against Bill 62
Mahvish Ahmad (R) lifts her three year old daughter with Saima Sajid (C) and Asma Ahmad while in the park, in the West Island of Montreal, Quebec October 26, 2017. The women who have chosen to wear the niqab are concerned about the impact that the new Quebec law, Bill 62, will have on them.
Top theologian Gregory Baum was a voice for modernity in the Catholic Church
Gregory Baum Roman is shown in this July 13, 1970 photo.
Xerox
Wounded guard in Vegas shooting staying in hotel for free
Canada focused on ‘concrete measures’ to ban nuclear weapons, Trudeau says
85-year-old Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when she survived a nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
US Treasury's inspector general clears plane trip
Dawson vs Morneau: if the laws aren't enough, who should take the next step?
Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson speaks to reporters after appearing as a witness at a commons committee on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. As Dawson probes further into whether Finance Minister Bill Morneau's life before politics is compromising his work in cabinet, the Liberals repeat publicly he's done exactly what she's told him to do. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
HBC invites bids for Vancouver flagship store amid investor anxiety
Hudson's Bay Co. is putting its flagship store in downtown Vancouver, seen here, up for sale hoping to fetch as much as $900-million.
Catalonia and Spain: Is a Quebec arrangement the answer?
Jean Charest
Abbott promises to "look into" Confederate plaque in Capitol
Nineteen-year-old man arrested after sexual assault in woods of Halifax campus
Supreme Court delays argument in Ohio voter purge case
QB Nichols expects Bombers to show up with 'playoff-type urgency' against Lions
Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Matt Nichols (15) passes against the Toronto Argonauts during first half CFL football action in Toronto on October 21, 2017. Matt Nichols isn't counting on anyone doing the Winnipeg Blue Bombers a favour.If the CFL club wants to secure a home playoff date for the first time since 2011, the quarterback knows now's the time to get that done with a victory Saturday afternoon against the visiting B.C. Lions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week​
Florida man gets death for killing wife, 5 children
Ottawa to review $1.45-billion Aecon takeover bid
Aecon road crews work on Highway 407, near Highway 427 in Toronto, in this file photo.
Why bank stocks could soon be doing the splits
With CIBC trading well above $100, expect that we could see some stock splits as soon as the banks’ fourth-quarter earnings season, which begins in late November.
Heading North: Florida Gov. off to Canada on trade mission
Trump administration proposes health law benefit changes
Family of Argentine protester says border police killed him
Sergio Maldonado attends a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. The body of Santiago Maldonado was found near the site of a protest on Aug. 1, when he was last seen alive and according to witnesses was detained by the police. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Top prosecutor in high-profile Virginia office resigning
Missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry urged to hear voices of women in prison
Sharon Acoose - an Indigenous woman who spent time as a sex worker and in jail - says the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women must work on hearing the voices of those behind bars to explore root causes of violence against Aboriginal women and girls. Acoose is shown in this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo at her office at the First Nations University of Canada in Saskatoon.
Hey, Canadian stock market: Thanks for 10 years of nothing
Rob Carrick
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