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Navy to begin training crew at sea on leased supply vessel MV Asterix
MV Asterix is shown in this undated handout image.
Fiancee: Man shot dead by cop was running away at the time
Flagstaff residents say lack of snow has slowed business
Colorado ski areas pay record $20M in White River forest
Police: Suspicious item found at Sky Harbor wasn't dangerous
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Bitter cold disrupts Via Rail service to northern Manitoba communities
A Via Rail sign is seen in Halifax on June 13, 2013.
Definition mission: A rhyming limerick for each English word
In this photo made Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, Chris Strolin poses for a photo in Belleville, Ill. Strolin created the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, or OEDILF for short, and with the help of contributors has published more than 97,000 definitions of words in limerick form since it began in 2004. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
U19 FIBA basketball champions voted Canadian Press team of year
The Canadian under-19 World Cup basketball team poses for a celebratory group photo after defeating Italy 79-60 in the gold-medal game.
Peru president and rival questioned over links to Odebrecht
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2017 file photo, lawyer Alberto Borea points to President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as he defends the Peruvian leader before Congress in Lima, Peru. Kuczynski is facing an impeachment vote following revelations that his private consulting business received money from the Brazilian construction company implicated in Latin America's biggest corruption scandal. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)
Q&A: Using government policy to guide investment choices
This photo provided by Benjamin Phillips shows Phillips, chief investment officer of EventShares. Recently launched exchange-traded funds that invest in companies that stand to benefit from political and policy initiatives are a good bet for investors, according to Phillips. (Jonathon Clements/Courtesy of Benjamin Phillips via AP)
India lower house approves bill banning instant divorce
Groups accuse Flint of violating legal settlement over water
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2017, file photo, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver speaks in Flint, Mich. Plaintiffs in a landmark legal settlement related to Flint's lead-tainted water have asked a federal judge to intervene because they say city officials have repeatedly ignored requirements that allow monitoring of whether the court-ordered deal is being followed. In a statement Thursday, Dec. 28, Weaver defended her administration while saying the motion deals only with proposed changes to how status reports are provided and does not jeopardize lead pipe replacements. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP File)
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82 Dominion Energy workers among 1,500 headed to Puerto Rico
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Grains lower, livestock higher
Asian stocks drift higher on final trading day of 2017
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, American flags fly in front of the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets were mixed on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, in quiet post-Christmas holiday trading. Strong economic data from Asia and the U.S. boosted investor confidence in some markets. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Ridiculed former Miss America calls board offer 'laughable'
Principal's door from Rockwell's iconic 'Shiner' preserved
This Dec. 20, 2017, photo provided by Cambridge Central Schools shows a display case with photos, an illustration and the door that was once on the Principal's office at Cambridge Central Schools in Cambridge, N.Y. Inside the case is the original door from the principal's office that served as the setting for the Normal Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover in 1953, known as "Girl With Black Eye," or "The Shiner." Steve Butz, a science teacher at Cambridge High School, preserved the door for display after it was replaced during a renovation project. (Steve Butz/Cambridge Central Schools via AP)
Academia faces #MeToo movement over sexual harassment
In this Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, photo, Professor Celeste Kidd is photographed at University of Rochester, in Rochester, N.Y. When Kidd was a graduate student at the University of Rochester she says a professor supervising her made her life unbearable by stalking her, making demeaning comments about her weight and talking about sex. Ten years on and now a professor of neuroscience at the university, Kidd is taking legal action. She has filed a federal lawsuit against the school alleging that it mishandled its sexual harassment investigation into the professor’s actions and then retaliated against her and her colleagues for reporting the misconduct. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)
Activists to copy Illinois 'gay panic defence' ban elsewhere
Retail gasoline prices in Texas, US increase this week
The Latest: Moore again calls Alabama election 'fraudulent'
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 file photo, Democrat Doug Jones speaks in Birmingham, Ala. Roy Moore is going to court to try to stop Alabama from certifying Jones as the winner of the U.S. Senate race. Moore filed a lawsuit Wednesday evening, Dec. 27, 2017, in Montgomery Circuit Court. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
The Latest: North Carolina eases heating fuel delivery rules
In this Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017 photo, the surf from Lake Erie pounds the shore in Dunkirk, N.Y., driven by cold winds with lake effect snow. The National Weather Service said that strong westerly winds over Lake Erie picked up moisture, developed into snow and converged with opposing winds, dumping snow in a band along the shore from Ohio to New York. (Damian Sebouhian/The Observer via AP)
UN: Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen kill 109 people in 10 days
U19 FIBA basketball champions pick up Canadian Press team of year honours
R.J Barrett, left to right, Danilo Djuricic and Amidou Bamba arrive at Toronto's Pearson Airport with other members of Canada's under-19 Basketball team after winning gold at the U19 FIBA World Cup, in Toronto on Monday, July 10, 2017. Canada's under-19 basketball team is the Canadian Press Team of the Year for 2017.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Bradshaw, Foreman, Winkler, Shatner bond on European TV trip
In this Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, photo, from left, Henry Winkler, Terry Bradshaw, Jeff Dye, George Foreman and William Shatner, cast members in the NBC reality series "Better Late Than Never," laugh as they pose together for a portrait at NBCUniversal Studios in Universal City, Calif. Foreman, Bradshaw, Winkler and Shatner traipsed through Asia during the first season of “Better Late Than Never” in 2016, and now the icons are taking on Europe in season two. The four icons reunite with comedian Jeff Dye for the NBC travelogue reality series premiering New Year’s Day. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Christmas spurs Canadians to regift to shed unwanted presents and even earn cash
Bunz Montreal moderator Fiona MacGillivray poses at her home in Montreal, Friday, December 22, 2017. Christmas is a time of giving, but it can also be an occasion for receiving less-than-desirable presents.Instead of stuffing castoffs into junk drawers, a growing number of people are finding ways to put unwanted gifts into the hands of more appreciative recipients.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Judge orders R.J. Reynolds to keep paying Florida millions
Wrong mutual fund can rob years of retirement income
FILE - In this Thursday, June 24, 2010, file photo, attendees of a Morningstar investment conference walk beneath banners at the McCormick Center in Chicago. Understanding mutual fund share classes, and choosing the correct class, could save investors hundreds of thousands of dollars over the long term. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
Putin: Syrian campaign showed off Russia's military might
Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a toast during an award ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, for Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in Syria. Putin said at Thursday's award ceremony that Wednesday's explosion at a supermarket in the country's second-largest city was a terrorist attack. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)
Rescued sailor claims he spent 7 months lost on Indian Ocean
These are the five-alarm personal finance stories of 2017
Atlanta TV station: Veteran news anchor Amanda Davis dies
Markets Right Now: Bank stocks lead indexes slightly higher
Barn fire at equestrian training farm kills 24 horses
Fire officials investigate the cause of a fire at Folly Farm in Simsbury, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. The owners of the Connecticut equestrian training and boarding farm said many horses died in the fire at their barn. (John Woike/Hartford Courant via AP)
Tehran police: No more arrests for flouting dress code
FILE - In this file photo taken on April 2, 2017, women watch people riding boats on the Persian Gulf Martyrs lake during the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, an annual public picnic day on the 13th day of the Iranian new year, west of Tehran, Iran. Police in Iran's capital say they will no longer arrest women for failing to observe the Islamic dress code imposed since the 1979 revolution. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Nova Scotia launches inquiry into veteran’s triple murder-suicide
Lionel Desmond, his wife Shanna and daughter Aaliyah pose for a Christmas portrait. The Afghan war veteran killed them both as well as his mother Brenda before turning the gun on himself on Jan. 3.
US, Turkey announce end to visa dispute sparked by arrest
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. Erdogan says he wants to mend strained ties with several European nations, saying Turkey is forced to "decrease the number of enemies and increase friends." (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Pool Photo via AP)
Inquiry announced into Lionel Desmond tragedy: 'This is just the beginning'
Family and friends arrive at the funeral for Lionel Desmond and his mother Brenda Desmond at St. Peter's Church in Tracadie, N.S. on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. Desmond killed his mother, wife and young daughter before taking his own life earlier in the month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Judge denies legal request to grant elephants personhood
'Lady Bird's' Saoirse Ronan comes of age on screen, in life
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Protesters arrested in Iran after rally against price hikes
Missouri caregiver charged in killing of 94-year-old woman
White rhino born at the Toronto Zoo for first time in 27 years
Zohari, a seven-year-old female white rhinoceros, gave birth to a male calf weighing 62.3 kg. December 24th at the Toronto Zoo.
Applications for US jobless aid hold at 245,000
FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, shows the Illinois Department of Employment Security office in Springfield, Ill. On Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits the week before. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Police: Suspect wearing "Trust Me" T-shirt steals car
This December 2017 photo released by the Official Fairfax County Police Department shows Wilmer Lara Garcia, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "Trust Me", who was charged with auto theft and two counts of forgery after allegedly stealing a car with an accomplice in Fairfax County, Va. (Official Fairfax County Police Department via AP)
Police: $25 million in knockoff luxury accessories seized
Charlottesville protest organizer seeks new trial venue
First white rhinoceros born at Toronto Zoo in 27 years has "very hairy ears"
The Toronto Zoo is proud to announce that Zohari, a seven-year-old female white rhinoceros shown in this handout image gave birth to a male calf on Tuesday, December 24, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Toronto Zoo **MANDATORY CREDIT **
Germany: Afghan teen in custody over fatal stabbing
In this Dec. 27, 2017 photo. a customer leaves a drugstore in Kandel, Germany. Flowers and candles lie in front of the entrance. A 15-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker is in custody in Germany after allegedly fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, a German of the same age, in the drugstore. Police say the stabbing followed what appeared to be an argument between the two Wednesday in Kandel, near the French border. (Andreas Arnold/dpa via AP)
Italian government sets parliamentary election for March 4
Sobey families consolidate Empire voting shares into single holding company
A Sobeys grocery store is seen in Halifax in this file photo. The threeSobey families that control Canada’s second-largest grocery business have decided to put all of their class B shares of Empire Co. into a single holding company.
Police find owner of Pepsi machine abandoned in New Brunswick potato field
The RCMP in Saint-Léonard, N.B. are asking for the public's help in locating the owner of a Pepsi vending machine found in a potato field southwest of Grand Falls.
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Head office and manufacturing company Saputo Inc., seen in Montreal, November 14, 2013.
Sobey families consolidate Empire voting shares into single holding company
A Sobeys grocery store is seen in Halifax on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. The three branches of the Sobey family that control Canada’s second-largest grocery business have decided to put all of their Class B shares of Empire Co. Ltd. into a single holding company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Royal Canadian Navy to begin training at sea on leased supply vessel
MV Asterix is shown in this undated handout image. The Royal Canadian Navy's latest supply vessel the MV Asterix is berthed in Halifax today after travelling to Nova Scotia from the Davie shipyard in Levis, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Royal Canadian Navy
First Nations look to cash in on growing marijuana industry
Growing flowers of cannabis intended for the medical marijuana market in Moncton, N.B
Company in deadly school bus crash settles lawsuit for $323k
Thursday’s TSX breakouts: A security in an uptrend, yielding 4.3% with a payout ratio of 62 %
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Notley promises to lay out plan in 2018 to balance Alberta’s budget
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is pictured in Edmonton on Dec. 18, 2017.
Driver gets 18 months in prison for hitting 5 bicyclists
Nova Scotia utility completing final power restorations amid frigid temperatures
Damaged power lines are seen in Dartmouth, N.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017. Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are without electricity after a Christmas Day windstorm wreaked havoc across the province, interrupting dinners and disrupting travel.
New York’s incoming subway chief Andy Byford has tough task ahead
Under Andy Byford’s leadership in Toronto, TTC customer satisfaction rose to 80 per cent from 72 per cent.
Pennsylvania to end state control of Philadelphia schools
Hundreds of disorderly youth descend on mall; 5 charged
Failed space launches haunt Russia; Kremlin eyes probe
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017 file photo, a Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying Meteor M satellite and additional 18 small satellites, flies in the sky at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. The Kremlin says authorities are looking into recent failures in Russia's space industry. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
New report says some progress on reducing cat overpopulation, but not enough
A new study on cat overpopulation in Canada says more of the pets are being sterilized to reduce unwanted litters, but there are still more cats than people willing to give them homes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Encourage your employees to travel – it will make them happier and more efficient
Gabrielle Nydam is the president of Contiki Canada, arranging social travel for 18- to 35-year-olds.
US airstrike in Somalia kills 4 of al-Shabab, destroys bomb
Blackout hits 11,000 hydro customers in Whitby, Ont.; restoration time TBD
Debt reduction remains a high priority for Canadians: poll
CIBC says debt reduction or elimination was the top priority for 25 per cent of the poll respondents.
Forecasters warn Britain may face coldest night of the year
People walk in the snow covered Malvern Hills, Malvern, east England, Thursday Dec. 28, 2017, as plunging temperatures and widespread ice are expected to cause more problems for road and air travellers. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
Woman finds gifts on I-75, looks for boy they were meant for
Red Cross says 16 patients evacuated from Syrian suburb
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, ambulances of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent queuing during a human mission to evacuate sick and wounded people from the eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. The government recently tightened its siege of eastern Ghouta, home to some 400,000 people, leading to severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter sets in. (SANA via AP)
Nova Scotia Power completing final power restorations amid frigid temperatures
4 detainees escape from city prison in Berlin
Tesco chain refunding money for spoiled Christmas turkeys
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Sex, drugs and rolling into the corner: the waterbed turns 50
Mike Cleaver poses with a new waterbed at his mattress store in Barrie, Ont., on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The waterbed industry has had its ups and downs over the decades. Mostly downs if you're looking at the past 30 years. But its most ardent supporters are buoyed by a modern wave of beds they say could shake its kitschy reputation once and for all, and maybe even bring it back into the mainstream. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephan Potopnyk
​The best deals on luxury newcomers in 2017​
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Ten questions to take stock of your work and career going into 2018
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Dec. 28: Assisted death – and who provides it. Plus other letters to the editor
The Latest: White House condemns Afghanistan attack
Parts of 2 more Arizona highways set to close for the winter
From bitcoin to Belize, here are the best and worst assets of 2017
A port worker checks a shipment of copper in Valparaiso port, Chile.
Bitcoin sinks below $14,000 as South Korea eyes fresh regulations
A view of Ducatus café, the first cashless cafe that accepts cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, on their opening day in Singapore, Dec. 21, 2017.
Thursday’s Insider Report: Companies insiders are buying and selling
Agnico-Eagle's Meadowbank mine in Nunavut.
Turkey's leader denies plans for naval base in Sudan
Zimbabwe ex-military leader who ousted Mugabe becomes VP
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 24, 2017 file photo, Army General Constantino Chiwenga smiles during the presidential inauguration ceremony in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's state-run media is reporting that new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the country's former military commander as one of his two vice presidents. The naming of Constantino Chiwenga deepens concerns among some in the southern African nation about the military's close ties with Mnangagwa, who took power last month after Chiwenga led a military takeover to oust longtime leader Robert Mugabe. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
Vietnam party chief praises fight against corruption
Two brothers displaced by residential fire in New Glasgow, N.S.
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Latticework a beautiful, yet functional way to divide a space
In a home that architect Paul Raff designed in Toronto, laser cut metal screens 'add an intricacy and a play of layers, views, and light,' he says.
How can I pull off an eye-catching evening jacket?
London-based media icon Jefferson Hack attends a party after the British Fashion Awards in December.
Start the new year with a fresh beauty routine
Russia to investigate Putin foe's call for election boycott
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny pauses, at the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
China’s lending: A velvet glove cloaks an iron fist
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