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February 27

Hawaii suspends missile siren tests after mistaken alert
Hyman, Moore score in Maple Leafs' overtime loss to Panthers
Derek MacKenzie of the Florida Panthers checks the puck away from Kasperi Kapanen of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Feb, 27, 2018.
McCann gets OT winner, Panthers top Maple Leafs 3-2
Florida Panthers center Jared McCann, right, celebrates with teammates after his game-winning overtime goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs in an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in Sunrise, Fla. Florida won the game 3-2. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper)
Erik Karlsson has a goal, assist for Senators in loss to Capitals
Mike Hoffman of the Ottawa Senators skates past Matt Niskanen of the Washington Capitals on Feb. 27, 2018.
Manitoba NDP appoints 2 women to lead probe into sex harassment, misconduct
Sandra Delaronde, Executive Director of the Indigenous Women's Research Institute, MMIWG Coalition co-chair expresses her concerns about the national inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women and girls in Winnipeg, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The Manitoba NDP has appointed two women as commissioners to investigate reports of sexual harassment and misconduct from staff and elected officials. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Kuznetsov scores twice, Capitals beat Senators 3-2
OHL Roundup: Sherwood, Brown score two each as Rangers double up Sting
Lewis Gilbert, 97, was the director of James Bond films and the classic movie Alfie
British filmmaker Lewis Gilbert in 2000.
B.C. suspends ICBC’s capital reserve minimum, raising prospect of bailout
Vehicles enter and exit the Richmond end of the Massey Tunnel that connects Richmond and Delta, B.C., on Sept. 11, 2017. B.C. is suspending rules for its money-losing public auto insurer that are designed to ensure it has enough capital to make payouts.
Toronto FC beats Rapids to advance to Champions League quarterfinals
Colorado Rapids Kortne Ford (left) wrestles Toronto FC's Sebastian Giovinco to the ground during second half CONCACAF Champions League Round of 16 action in Toronto on Tuesday, February 27, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Blame Canada: Trump paints us as suave international swindlers
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 27, 2018.
Critics say new Vancouver policy will change city skyline ‘as we know it’
Vancouver’s 27 view cones, established in 1989, limit building heights at key spots and provide expansive views of the mountains from areas all over the city.
Court case highlights concerns about Indigenous representation on juries
A sign stands outside of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Battleford, Sask., on the day of closing arguments in the trial of Gerald Stanley, the farmer accused of killing Colten Boushie, on Feb. 8.
Wednesday's small-cap stocks to watch: Quebec pension fund-led group to buy Student Transportation
Student Transportation has 11,500 vehicles in Ontario and a number of U.S. states.
In patriarchal Japan, saying 'Me Too' can be risky for women
The Latest: 3 space station astronauts return to Earth
In this photo provided by NASA, Expedition 54 crew members, from left, Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei are wrapped in blankets after exiting the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft that landed in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. The three astronauts returned from the International Space Station to the snowy, bitingly cold flat lands of Central Asia, ending a 5 1/2-month mission highlighted by robotic renovations, schoolteacher pep talks and heavenly greetings from Pope Francis. (NASA via AP)
Complaint: HUD employee demoted over office makeover request
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks at Vaux Big Picture High School in Philadelphia. A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee said Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, that she was demoted after she refused to comply with a request from the acting agency head that she "find money" to bankroll a costly remodeling of future HUD Secretary Ben Carson's office. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Money laundering linked to drug trade a ‘structural’ issue: SFU criminologist
The cityscape is pictured in downtown Vancouver, on Dec. 22, 2016. A recent Globe and Mail investigation identified people connected to the local fentanyl trade who are also private lenders, using Vancouver-area real estate to clean their cash.
Canadian Shapovalov downs Nishikori
Vancouver group looks to break down social barriers among seniors
Amie Peacock, centre, founder of Vancouver volunteer group Beyond the Conversation, speaks with a woman during a meeting to help people practise English and combat social isolation.
China factory index at 19-month low as holiday slows work
In this Feb. 22, 2018 photo, a woman works with spools of thread in a textile company in Hai'an county in eastern China's Jiangsu province. A report released Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 says that China's manufacturing activity weakened to its lowest level in 19 months as the extended Lunar New Year holiday has left the month with fewer work days. (Chinatopix via AP)
Federal budget stresses need for gender equality but offers little cash
Finance Minister Bill Morneau hands over the federal budget to a clerk in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday.
North Korea sent banned items to Syria, Myanmar, UN finds
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TDSB challenges ‘unfair’ development-charge regulation
Toronto District School Board sign is shown in front of a high school in Toronto on Jan. 30, 2018. The Toronto District School Board is challenging a provincial regulation that prevents it from collecting millions of dollars in development charges.
Ottawa agrees to long-sought expansion of eligibility for thalidomide assistance
Terry Bolton, a spokesman for a group of victims who had been excluded from previous deals, welcomed the expansion of the federal thalidomide victims' assistance program in the 2018 budget.
Boy, 11, struck and killed by vehicle in Toronto's east end, police say
Toronto city-hall committee votes against REimagining Yonge proposal
A pedestrian on Yonge Street at Avondale Avenue in Toronto on Jan. 17, 2018.
Stephen Mandel wins vote to become new leader of Alberta Party
Stephen Mandel speaks to the crowd after being voted in as new leader of the Alberta Party in Edmonton on Feb. 27, 2018.
The Latest: California police dog loses teeth during arrest
QMJHL Roundup: Morand scores winner as Titan down Islanders in OT
Are Toronto police playing the blame game with the Bruce McArthur case?
Marcus Gee
Sagkeeng First Nation gathers to honour Tina Fontaine
People hold up signs during a rally in memory of Tina Fontaine in Montreal on Feb. 24, 2018.
The Latest: Alleged rapist posed as ride-hailing driver
Takata air bag recall made compulsory for Australia vehicles
Australian Assistant Minister to the Treasurer, Michael Sukkar, talks about a compulsory recall order of 2.7 million cars fitted with defective Takata air bags, in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Australia issued a compulsory recall for cars fitted with defective air bags in an effort to lift the auto industry's mixed efforts to fix the fault blamed for multiple deaths around the world. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
Woman sues Delta, says she was groped on flight
Allison Dvaladze, director, Global Strategy, Partnerships and Advocacy at a Seattle-based international women's cancer project, was sexually assaulted on a Delta flight from Seattle to Amsterdam in 2016 and since then has mounted a one-woman campaign to bring attention to the issue. She is standing on the roof of the building where she works Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)
Papua New Guinea quake killed at least 15, injured dozens
Budget takes small steps toward pharmacare, but path littered with financial, political land mines
André Picard
Stephen Mandel wins race with 66% of vote to become new leader of Alberta Party
New leader of the Alberta Party Stephen Mandel, speaks to the crowd after being voted in, in Edmonton Alta, on Tuesday February 27, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Printing presses for Washington Post’s Pentagon Papers coverage live on in Ontario
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a scene from The Post.
The Latest: 2 Britons died of burn injuries in copter crash
Illinois House speaker discloses harassment complaints
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan listens as lawyer Heather Wier Vaught discusses a list of sexual harassment complaints in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. Madigan has released an internal review showing nine incidents of sexual harassment or discrimination in his state office in the past five years and how they were resolved. (Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register via AP)
Budget doesn’t make grade in truly helping women to narrow wage gap
Linda Nazareth
Correction: Firearms Smuggling Charges story
10 Things to Know for Wednesday
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2000 file photo, British filmmaker Lewis Gilbert poses for a photograph. Producers say Gilbert, who directed dozens of movies including three James Bond thrillers, has died at 97, it was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. (William Conran/PA via AP, File)
The Latest: Ban lifted on reporting Vegas shooting autopsies
FILE- This Oct. 2017 file photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Force Investigation Team Report showing the interior of room 32-134 of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel, an evidence imaged released as part of a preliminary report by Clark County Sheriff. Records released by a federal court confirm that the FBI received internet and email records belonging to the shooter in the Las Vegas Strip massacre and his girlfriend, but offer little new insight about the investigation. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)
Federal budget on same page as B.C. on issues of equity, reconciliation, opioids
Four powers condemn Iran for violating arms embargo on Yemen
Suit: Colorado sheriff's policy violates immigrant rights
FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2014 file photo, Bill Elder is sworn in as interim sheriff of El Paso County by Judge Gilbert Martinez at Centennial Hall in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Colorado American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, filed a lawsuit contending a Sheriff's department is improperly holding people in the country illegally on behalf of federal authorities in what is believed to be the first legal challenge to a Trump administration effort to work around court rulings limiting how it can work with local jails to enforce immigration laws. The complaint in Colorado District Court alleges that El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder "holds prisoners in custody for days, weeks and even months after state law requires their release." (Jerilee Bennett/Colorado Springs Gazette via AP, File)
Another lawmaker facing expulsion over sexual misconduct
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, Colorado State Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, looks on as the Colorado House of Representatives convenes for the start of the 2018 session. Democratic House Majority Leader KC Becker said Tuesday, Feb. 27, that she will recommend that Lebsock be expelled after an independent investigator found sexual harassment complaints against him were credible. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Developers end effort for oil terminal in Washington state
FILE--This Oct. 3, 2002, file photo shows a tugboat maneuvering through waiting freighters on the Columbia River near the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, Wash. A project to build a massive oil-by-rail terminal in southwest Washington officially ended Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, when the project's developers and the Port of Vancouver terminated a lease for a site along the Columbia River (AP Photo/Don Ryan,File)
Why Airbnb is taking some lessons in hospitality from the hotel industry
Airbnb has recorded 300 million check-ins by guests across 4.5 million rental listings in its first decade – eclipsing the figures for its major hotel-industry competitors.
Deputy gets year in jail for crash that caused brain damage
Florida officers sentenced in man's beating after car chase
US proposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminum foil
Investing in Mining Special Report
Lawmakers vote to form investigative panel in Meehan case
Immigrant wanted in Illinois homicide arrested in Arizona
Streetwise newsletter: Scotiabank, BMO earnings; Maricann facing OSC scrutiny
A Bay street sign is seen in Toronto’s financial district.
Man who pleaded guilty to shooting state trooper sentenced
Famed Quebec actor and acting professor fired due to allegations of harassment
The Latest: West Virginia teachers to end strike Thursday
Police called after brawl in dispute over Trump Panama hotel
FILE - This July 4, 2011, file photo, shows the Trump International Hotel Panama , third building from left, in Panama City. Panama’s government is formally investigating a complaint that executives for President Donald Trump’s family hotel business are refusing to physically leave the 70-story luxury Trump hotel there amid a management dispute. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)
Trump campaign chief lends name to penny stock tied to felon
Car vandalism culprit? Evidence points to unidentified bear
Why BMO's chief risk officer isn't worried about loan losses
The Bank of Montreal in Toronto's Financial District on Tuesday, April 4, 2017.
4 powers condemn Iran for violating arms embargo on Yemen
Scotiabank, BMO paint optimistic pictures in face of declining profit for capital-markets arms
A Scotiabank location in downtown Toronto.
Suspicious mail triggers illness at Virginia military base
Pandering to electric-vehicle owners contains blind spots
Konrad Yakabuski
Site says YouTube dinged it for slamming shooting survivors
In this April 17, 2017, file photo, "Infowars" host Alex Jones arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas. InfoWars, a website that suggested survivors of the Florida school shooting were coached on their pleas for gun control, says its video account was temporarily frozen by YouTube. (Tamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
U2's Bono lauds budget boost, but aid groups say it is a good start
U2's Bono makes a brief statement as he meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Global Fund conference Saturday, September 17, 2016 in Montreal. U2 frontman Bono heaped praise on the Trudeau government Tuesday for a new infusion of Canadian overseas development spending, leading a chorus of anti-poverty activists who welcomed the biggest boost in almost two decades. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Why even a heck of a good earnings season has failed to ignite a rally in the TSX
Fourth-quarter reporting season has just passed its halfway point, with total profits posted by Canada’s largest public companies on track for close to a 20-per-cent increase over last year.
In the Liberal era, this is what an austerity budget looks like
David Parkinson
Globe editorial: Morneau's budget misses the point by not responding to Trump
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau walk from Trudeau’s office to the House of Commons to deliver the budget on Parliament Hill on Tuesday.
Randy Bachman reimagines George Harrison tunes, goes too far
This cover image released by UMe shows "By George - By Bachman," a release of George Harrison songs by Randy Bachman. (UMe via AP)
Key Oregon standoff figure sentenced to 3 years in prison
FILE - This Jan. 26, 2016, file photo taken from an FBI video shows Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, center, after he was fatally shot by police near Burns, Ore. A federal judge declined to dismiss any charges Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, against FBI Special Agent W. Joseph Astarita, who is accused of lying about firing two shots at Finicum in the takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. (FBI via AP, file)
Federal budget 2018: New measures enhance financial security – for some
Finance Minister Bill Morneau announces the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday.
In free speech case, justices troubled by Fla. man's arrest
Horizons revamps ETF amid worries about volatility-based funds
Review: Moby returns to his moody, trip-hop best on new CD
This cover image released by Mute Records shows "Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt" by Moby. (Mute via AP)
Satanic Temple sues Arizona city to lead city council prayer
FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the gift shop door at the international headquarters of the Satanic Temple, in Salem, Mass. The Satanic Temple of Tucson has sued the well-off Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, accusing officials of discrimination after being denied an opportunity to give the opening prayer at a City Council meeting. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Evening Update newsletter: Federal budget 2018, Scotiabank and BMO, Ontario PCs
Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb.27, 2018.
Female lobbyist calls out sexual misconduct at statehouse
Government commits to 'move away from Phoenix' and build new pay system
Finance Minister Bill Morneau receives an ovation while delivering the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb.27, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Federal budget 2018: Ottawa boosts support for female entrepreneurs
Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb.27, 2018.
Business Highlights
Winnipeg’s Paul Faraci, credited with inventing the Pizza Pop, dies at 89
Paul Faraci, the man credited with inventing the Pizza Pop, is shown in a family handout photo.
Some of the reaction to the Liberal government's 2018 budget tabled Tuesday
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau walks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they leave his office on route to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Diversity? What diversity? No time to be smug about the state of TV
John Doyle
Lexpert roundup: Comcast’s bid for sky; Shoppers/ Aurora Cannabis deal; M&A drug wars
Manafort's case saddled by side issues, disputes with judge
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves Federal District Court, in Washington. Manafort’s legal problems are growing. Not only did the former Trump campaign chairman’s business associate flip on him, but the special counsel’s office secured another indictment that accuses him of even more crimes. It was the latest bump in a rough road. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Why troubles at Tim Hortons could be a buying opportunity
A Tim Hortons coffee shop in downtown Toronto, on Wednesday, June 29, 2016.
White House outlines prison reform goals
Family, friends, elders gather at Sagkeeng First Nation to honour Tina Fontaine
Women sing and drum during a rally for Tina Fontaine in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday February 24, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
U.S. consulting with auto companies about proposed NAFTA manufacturing rules
An employee works on a Ford Expedition on an assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky., on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017.
Trump campaign chief lends name to penny stock tied to felon
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, Brad Parscale, who was the Trump campaign's digital director, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower in New York. President Donald Trump has named former digital adviser Brad Parscale as campaign manager of his 2020 re-election campaign. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
California fire chiefs seek money to prepare for wildfires
Macy's and Tenet rise while Nutrisystem and Akorn tumble
Small businesses with large passive investment income to be taxed more
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is congratulated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after delivering the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb.27, 2018.
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