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China says it hopes India learns lesson from border standoff
Hot weather in Calgary prompts fire ban in city, heat warning issued
Mattis assembling panel to discuss transgender troops
Memorial erected at Saskatchewan intersection for victims of drunk driver
Hearing set in bid to void critical ruling in Arpaio's case
Illinois auto museum to open exhibit about Princess Diana
Support staff at Ontario's 24 colleges ratify four-year extension.
Two Canadians indicted in attack on protesters during Erdogan U.S. visit
Feinstein: Pardon of Arizona sheriff "a stupid thing to do"
United States Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Chris Sale strikes out 11 as Red Sox beat Blue Jays
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale works against the Toronto Blue Jays during the third inning in Toronto, on Aug. 29, 2017.
Nielsen's top programs for Aug. 21-27
Viewership down for MTV's Video Music Awards
Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for video of the year for "HUMBLE." at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
Weather Channel, news networks, go all in on Harvey coverage
Steinbeck film remakes stuck in dust bowl, stepdaughter says
B.C. private-clinic advocate misleadingly blames two deaths on wait times
Dr. Brian Day, Medical Director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, at his office in Vancouver Aug. 31, 2016.
Canada beats Venezuela but fails to advance into semifinals at FIBA AmeriCup
New Jersey to US Supreme Court: Strike down sports bet ban
Sale strikes out 11, reaches MLB milestone as Red Sox top Blue Jays
Boston Red Sox' Rajai Davis (right) steals second base in front of Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Darwin Barney during eighth inning Major League baseball action in Toronto on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Winnipeg transit drivers union says Peggo cards not working right
Court revives dismissed Hawaii jail sex therapy lawsuit
Winnipeg police seize broomstick and cane that had been turned into weapons
Group protests Ai Weiwei art installation in New York City
FILE - In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei speaks during a press conference at the exhibition 'translocation - transformation' at the Museum of contemporary art in Vienna, Austria. Ai is getting some local opposition to his planned public art project in New York City. The New York Times reports the Washington Square Association is protesting Ai's proposed installation in the park's archway. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
Solitary confinement must have 15-day limit, plaintiffs tell B.C. Supreme Court
The BC Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada have sued the federal government over the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons.
Quebec relocates migrants’ aid distribution due to security concerns
A group of asylum seekers wait to be processed in Lacolle, Que., on Aug.11, 2017.
Man accused of stabbing team to be assessed for fitness to stand trial
Group of First Nations, environmentalists occupy salmon farm in B.C.
Protesters gather at the Marine Harvest fish farm on Swanson Island, near Alert Bay, B.C., in a handout photo from the Facebook page Swanson Occupation.
El Salvador judge acquits 18 for role in 2012 gang truce
In a career year, Justin Smoak rises above the Blue Jays’ stink
The Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak, centre, lines up a high five during Monday’s game against the Boston Red Sox in Toronto.
Myth of Diana, Princess of Wales, gets a final revision 20 years after her death
Visitors looks at floral tributes and photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, left outside Kensington Palace in Central London on Tuesday.
Nevada tax panel makes key decision on transporting pot
Venezuelan assembly demands probe and trial of 'traitors'
In this Aug. 23, 2017 photo, a shop window shows the few products it has for sale, in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. U.S. economic sanctions on Venezuela make it more likely Venezuela will stop payment on its debt, or reduce what few goods it still imports. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
B.C. allowed to intervene in legal challenge of Trans Mountain pipeline
Replacement pipe is stored near crude oil storage tanks at Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline terminal in Kamloops, B.C.
Guatemala's President can’t expel head of UN anti-corruption commission, court rules
A man chants slogans against Ivan Velasquez, head of the UN International Commission Against Impunity, outside the UN office in Guatemala City, on Aug. 29, 2017.
The Latest: UN Security Council condemns NKorea missile test
2 more sentenced for burning cross in couple's yard
Critics oppose college course looking at Black Lives Matter
Wildfire forces half of popular Montana town to evacuate
The storeys Margaret Atwood condemns
Alex Bozikovic
Muskrat Falls experience a warning for Site C dam project, expert says
The construction site of the hydroelectric facility at Muskrat Falls, N.L., on July 14, 2015.
Harvey, the unwelcome visitor that just won't leave
Downtown Houston bar owner William Bedner pours a round of whiskeys by flashlight in this photo taken on Aug. 28, 2017. Bedner's bar lost power as Tropical Storm Harvey flooded the streets just blocks from his bar Lilly & Bloom. Bedner has kept pouring drinks for friends, but expects to lose a lot of business and money due to the devastation wrought by the storm. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
Terminal expansion at Port of Prince Rupert in B.C. lauded as economic generator
Court rules B.C. will have intervener status in Trans Mountain pipeline case
Pipes are seen at the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain facility in Edmonton, Alta., Thursday, April 6, 2017. The Federal Court of Appeal is allowing British Columbia to be an intervener in a legal fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but with some conditions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Heavy rainfall flooding roads, basements and hospital in Windsor, Ont.
Concern mounts over Morneau’s proposed tax changes affecting small businesses
Finance Minister Bill Morneau holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, on July 18, 2017.
'16 champ Kerber exits at rainy US Open; Federer edges teen
Lives lived: Samir Zalzal, 84
Samir Zalzal
The Latest: Northern California wildfires force evacuations
The Latest: Guatemala court negates UN official's expulsion
A man chants slogans against Ivan Velasquez, head of the U.N. International Commission Against Impunity, outside the U.N. office in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he continues to fully support the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission in Guatemala in spite of that country's attempt to expel him. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Experts not second-guessing decision not to evacuate Houston
Evacuees are helped as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
First Nations, environmentalists occupy salmon farm in British Columbia
Protesters gather at the Marine Harvest fish farm on Swanson Island, near Alert Bay, B.C. in a handout photo from the Facebook page Swanson Occupation. Ernest Alfred, 36, sitting cross-legged on the right wearing a cedar bark neck ring, sits with other traditional leaders from neighbouring villages. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook-Swanson Occupation MANDATORY CREDIT
Police identify teen suspect in fatal New Mexico library shooting
An injured woman is carried to an ambulance in Clovis, N.M., on Aug. 28, 2017, as authorities respond to reports of a shooting inside a public library.
Who's sorry now? Not Kathy Griffin over Trump photo, video
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo, Kathy Griffin attends The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles. Griffin is taking back her apology for a photo in which she held up a fake severed head of President Donald Trump. In interviews with Australian TV shows, Griffin said that criticism of the photo was in her words “ridiculous,” especially in light of Trump administration actions. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Harvey Houston map
19 indicted for attacking protesters during Erdogan US visit
FILE- In this file frame grab from video provided by Voice of America, members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail are shown violently reacting to peaceful protesters during Erdogan's trip last month to Washington. A grand jury in the U.S. capital announced Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, that it issued indictments for 19 people, including 15 identified as Turkish security officials, for attacking protesters in May 2017. (Voice of America via AP, File)
37 people nationwide contract infection linked to turtles
The Latest: Ruling could make tax measures easier to pass
New Westminster, B.C., police say charges recommended in teen overdose death
Streetwise newsletter: Scotiabank’s $800-million deal to rename ACC; Canadian market boosts banks’ profits
Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto's financial district, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Canada's largest city is getting itself a new resident this year: the headquarters of the federal government's new infrastructure financing agency. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrien Veczan
Houston police chief blunt and emotional during Harvey
FILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and other law enforcement take part in public safety event in Austin, Texas. Acevedo is known for his blunt speaking-style and his empathetic side, and both were on display Tuesday, Aug. 29, as he warned looters to stay away from his city and then choked back tears as he announced that one of his veteran officers had died in the floodwaters. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Crew to attempt removal of mysterious object from beach
Videotron picks Comcast technology for IPTV; follows Shaw, Rogers
An IPTV remote control.
Laurentian bank to end some counter services, focuses more on online transactions
Bill to fund cash-strapped Honolulu rail advances in Senate
Robert Nuttall was a natural in the ‘theatre’ of criminal defence
Robert Nuttall speaks outside Ontario Superior Court in Brampton, Ont., in 2009 after his client, Ali Mohamed Dirie, was sentenced to seven years for taking part in, and helping, a terrorist group.
'I can't wait to prove I deserve to be here': Taylor Nill joins UBC staff
University of British Columbia Thunderbirds running backs coach Taylor Nill, left, stands next to his father, head coach Blake Nill, during football practice in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday August 28, 2017. Blake Nill remembers trying to get away during the hectic university football season to see his young children before they went to bed. Then the head coach of the powerhouse Saint Mary's Huskies, unfortunately it didn't happen all that often. But went it did, he would usually get some help from his son, Taylor, as work continued into the night. That football family will be reunited this season on the sidelines after Blake Nill, now the head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds, hired Taylor to coach the team's running backs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Woodbridge Striker earns national team stint after impressing Canada coach
Correction: Harvey-Warnings story
Excerpt from ruling tossing Palin suit against NY Times
Hehr becomes Canada's new sport minister while his hometown mulls Olympic bid
Right whale entangled in fishing gear off Gaspe Peninsula: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
In this April 10, 2008 file photo, the head of a North Atlantic right whale peers up from the water as another whale passes behind in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Mass. Fisheries and Oceans Canada said Tuesday a right whale got entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula.
Montenegro police arrest alleged drug trafficking leader
Novel removed from independent stores' bestseller list
Air quality advisory issued for southern B.C. due to wildfires
A haze from wildfires burning in the U.S. hangs in the air as kids learning to kayak paddle on False Creek in Vancouver, B.C., on Aug. 29, 2017.
Right whale spotted entangled in fishing gear off Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula
Judge orders psych evaluation of man who plotted US attacks
House Dems urge Trump to reconsider military transgender ban
CIBC report warns of education/skills gap unless post-secondary system changes
UN Security Council 'strongly condemns' NKorea missile test
Japan's United Nations Ambassador Koro Bessho speak with reporters before attending U.N. Security Council consultations on North Korea, Tuesday Aug. 29, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Donating to Harvey relief efforts: How, when, what to give
Incarnate Word Academy (IWA) 7th graders in Brownsville, Texas, unload a truck of donated bottled water Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, as IWA hopes to fill an 18 wheeler trailer with community donated supplies to its final destination in Houston where Hurricane Harvey devastated Houstonians. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
Buffett's firm now owns 700 million Bank of America shares
Globe editorial: Indigenous people need results, not new ministries
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulates Carolyn Bennett after she was sworn-in as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Monday.
Globe editorial: When government meets technology, a crash is inevitable
When it comes to simple technology, the Canadian government keeps screwing things up.
Testimony under way in multimillionaire Durst's murder case
Quebec to no longer give welfare cheques to asylum seekers in convention centre
Court asks Mississippi governor to defend Confederate emblem
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, a state flag of Mississippi is unfurled by Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups on the grounds of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The U.S. Supreme Court is asking attorneys for Mississippi's governor to file arguments defending the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag. The court on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, set a Sept. 28 deadline for the filing. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Some recall Sandy struggle as Congress ponders Harvey relief
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. The Republicans of New York and New Jersey are pledging unconditional support for those devastated by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. But their resentment lingers. As historic floods wreaked havoc across the Southwest on Tuesday, Northeastern Republicans recalled with painful detail the days after Superstorm Sandy ravaged their region in 2012. At the time, the Texas congressional delegation, led by Cruz, overwhelmingly opposed a disaster relief package they said was packed with wasteful spending. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CRTC gives Internet resellers early access to BCE’s fibre-optic service
CRTC has set temporary rates for what third-party competitors must pay to access services in Ontario and Quebec.
John Doyle: Disjointed’s high humour merely burns out
John Doyle
Four reasons to buy this underloved REIT
The average distribution yield in the sector remains more than five percentage points above the government of Canada five-year bond yield, a level that suggests strong returns for REIT investors for the next two years.
Save the date: Next Philly Naked Bike Ride just days away
FILE- In this Sept. 10, 2016, file photo, artist Nicole Tossas paints a slogan on the back of a bicyclist before the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia. Organizers of the Philly Naked Bike Ride said Tuesday the ninth annual event will take place throughout the city's streets Sept. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Dino Hazell, File)
Canadian airlines cancel scores of flights because of Hurricane Harvey
Evening Update newsletter: Trump visits Texas to assess impact of Harvey, Air Canada Centre to be renamed Scotiabank Arena
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Raptors, has agreed on a 20-year, $800-million deal with the Bank of Nova Scotia to rename the Air Canada Centre.
CMHC insurance volumes sink further as a result of new mortgage rules
CMHC continues to feel the effect of new federal regulations introduced late last year, with volumes for homeowner insurance down about 25 per cent from a year ago.
Corso still going on "GameDay" - with help from his friends
FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 file photo, broadcaster Lee Corso watches play during the second half of an NCAA football game between the Georgia and the LSU in Athens, Ga. At 82 years old and eight years removed from a stroke, Corso is back for a 30th season on “College GameDay." Corso can still energize college kids on a Saturday morning like a free-beer tailgate, and for millions of viewers the games don't begin until he dons a mascot head and picks the day's marquee matchup. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Muni bond Tuesday update: 10-year yield decreases
Two candidates in Alberta leadership race pony up for United Conservative names
2 new cougar kittens found in Santa Monica Mountains
Kelly: Ticats' hiring of Art Briles was about one thing – winning
Cathal Kelly
Apple CEO Tim Cook reaps $89.6M windfall from long-term deal
FILE - In this Monday, June 5, 2017, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. Cook has collected $89.6 million from a lucrative 10-year deal that he signed as an incentive to keep the iPhone maker at the forefront of the technology industry after he took over the reins in 2011 from company co-founder Steve Jobs. The windfall detailed in a Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, regulatory flowed from 560,000 Apple shares sold during the past week. Apple set aside $46.4 million to cover Cook's taxes. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Dartmouth faculty condemn statement over antifa comments
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