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Scott Moe wins Saskatchewan race
It took five ballots in the preferential system for Scott Moe, the former environment minister to win the Saskatchewan Party leadership.
Trudeau, Wynne commend women for courage in speaking out about Brown
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne saluted the courage of the women who have levied allegations of sexual misconduct against the former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party.
Patrick Brown denies 'troubling allegations' and resigns
Ontario's Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown is "categorically" denying what he describes as "troubling allegations" about his conduct and his character, saying he will defend himself in the court of law. Hours after speaking to reporters, he announced he was resigning.
Kinder Morgan doesn’t want 'Columbo' to intervene in Burnaby
Trans Mountain's representative, Thanh Nguyen, was unable to provide documents that fit Burnaby's eight-bullet criteria of what constituted an environmental impact assessment.
Kinder Morgan boss wants "right-of-entry" on Burnaby properties
Municipalities and residents in British Columbia are set to argue that the proposed route of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would damage sensitive ecosystems, harm public parks and trails and adversely impact homeowners.
Harvard's Neiman Lab profiles National Observer's founder
Last week, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University featured the “improbable” journey of Observer Media Group and its founder, Linda Solomon Wood.
A problem in North Korea, diplomacy in Vancouver
While Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were trading death threats through the media, the summit was being billed as a multilateral alternative led by Canada, a middle power imbued with what British foreign secretary Boris Johnson praised as an “instinct for peace.”
No sanctions relief without denuclearization, Tillerson says at summit in Vancouver
In 2003, the two Koreas and their superpower allies -- the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan -- met in Beijing to negotiate a peaceful path to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. Over six years, the Six-Party Talks made halting diplomatic progress before North Korea suddenly pulled out of negotiations in 2009.
Understanding the North Korean missile program
In 2004, Kim Jong-Il wanted to convince the United States that it had a nuclear bomb. His staff invited some of the world’s top nuclear scientists into his facility and handed Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University, a small piece of plutonium metal inside a glass jar.
A running list of the insults between two of the world’s most volatile leaders
To help keep track of where things stand in North Korea, we’ve kept a running list of the insults between two of the world’s most volatile leaders.