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Already reeling from a tariff on pulp and paper just two months ago, new U.S. levies against the industry announced recently have dealt a serious blow to a newsprint mill in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. Shortly after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a new 22-per-cent anti-dumping duty on products produced by Kruger in Cornerbrook, as well […]

A judge in Nantucket has ordered Kevin Spacey to appear in court next week for his arraignment on sexual assault charges, denying the two-time Oscar winner’s plea for him to be excused from what he described as a media circus. Spacey said in court documents, filed on Monday, that will plead not guilty to indecent […]

Valve has announced that Artifact, the Dota 2 card game made by Richard Garfield, is due to be released on Steam on 28th November. The game is also due to be shown publicly at this year’s PAX West, so we should hear a little more about it in a month’s time. Valve has kept its […]

Click:12 watt street light WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump just regaled another audience with a tall tale involving Canada. This one’s about the Keystone XL pipeline. On Thursday, the president claimed to an audience in Ohio that he never heard any gratitude from TransCanada Corp., the company behind the controversial project, after he signed an […]

A lack of snow and an exceptionally high risk of accidents has forced the closure of many of France’s ski runs, with slopes icy and “as hard as concrete”, officials said on Wednesday. A combination of extremely low night temperatures and scant snowfall is making conditions treacherous even for the most proficient skiers. Local authorities […]

All the new headwinds facing Canada’s homebuyers — from tough new mortgage “stress tests” and foreign buyers’ taxes to rising interest rates — haven’t stopped house prices from returning to growth. The latest edition of the Teranet/National Bank house price index shows home prices have recovered from a slump that began in the middle of […]

CTV Vancouver announced Monday it will introduce a host of changes in April, and began by letting go of the anchors for its 6 p.m. newscast. In a press release, CTV News Vancouver news director Les Staff thanked Tamara Taggart and Mike Killeen for “keeping Vancouverites informed about their city each and every day.” “Mike […]

David Lebor is not your typical German language teacher. He refuses to use textbooks. He doesn’t teach in a classroom setting, but prefers to take his students onto the streets. And, perhaps most surprising of all, he is British. Yet the 42-year-old entrepreneur’s radical new approach to teaching languages is helping Germany deal with one of the […]

OTTAWA — The sales practices of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies — a long-time sore spot for many consumers — will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal government on Thursday. “Like many Canadians, we are concerned by allegations of clearly inappropriate sales practices by telecom carriers,” Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible […]

Five teenagers and a 39-year-old mother were killed in a stampede at an Italian nightclub early on Saturday after someone reportedly released pepper spray and caused a panic inside the crowded venue.  The six people were crushed to death near the exit of the Blue Lantern disco in the central Italian town of Corinaldo, around […]