Monday, January 22, 2018

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  • SAG Awards putting spotlight on women amid #MeToo, Time's Up movements It's easy to dismiss the Screen Actors Guild Awards as just another Hollywood accolade, but this year's show is trying to add heft to women's empowerment.
  • New tactics, old scam: CRA fraud scheme still making the rounds Police in Newfoundland and Labrador have had so many calls about a CRA scam already this year that they're asking people to call only if they've lost money. Meanwhile, one N.L. woman duped by a text version of the scam is worried about identity theft after sharing her personal information.
  • Taliban attack on Afghan hotel leaves 18 dead, most of them foreigners A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan's capital killed at least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was killed on Sunday.
  • Rogers sales tactics and the 'Tide pod challenge': CBC's Marketplace consumer cheat sheet
  • 1 year later, Trump sparks hope and pain in Miami
  • Less than half the people deported from Canada in 2017 paid their own way home
  • Politicized UN committee using 'repeated and arbitrary deferrals' to block NGOs, critics say
  • Prospect of yearly federal beer tax hike has brewers up in arms
  • Speed Skating Canada investigating 'substantive' complaints against head coach
  • Forensic investigators descend on 3rd Toronto propert
  • Pence visit to Middle East stirs anger over Jerusalem declaration U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence is in the Middle East explaining the decision made by President Trump in December to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — a decision that has led Palestinian leaders to boycott the visit.
  • 'Somebody died because of that': Canada's mentally ill allowed to own, buy guns The country's gun control system is specifically designed to keep Canadians safe, yet it's allowing mentally ill people to get their hands on guns — and they are being used in suicides
  • Edmonton girl, 3, suffers serious injury to her hand due to botched IV line, mother says An Edmonton mother is worried her three-year-old daughter, who is recovering from open-heart surgery, sustained lifelong damage to her hand after a misplaced IV line caused the tissue to blister and decay.
  • 'We are living in a watershed moment': SAG Awards show spotlights women in Hollywood
  • Quebec City Muslims alarmed by increasingly public displays of racism one year after mosque shooting
  • Traces of blood found by police in Toronto murder suspect's vehicle, auto shop owner says
  • Insurers say Canadian weather getting weirder
  • Man living in shack on northern Alberta reserve pleads for housing with running water
  • U.S. shutdown continues into workweek as Senate talks drag on
  • Wind wreaks havoc, leaves thousands without power in
  • Amazon's 1st high-tech grocery store opens to the public Amazon Go, a grocery store where you can pick up items and walk out the door without going through any kind of checkout, opens to the public in Seattle today.
  • Most wealth gained last year went to richest 1%, Oxfam says A CEO from one of the world's top five global fashion brands has to work just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh will earn in an entire lifetime, campaigning group Oxfam International said Monday.
  • New details about Tess Richey's final hours may provide clues about her slaying Nearly two months after Tess Richey disappeared and was found dead in the Gay Village, CBC Toronto has learned new details about her final hours from a woman who was one of the last people who saw her alive.
  • U.S. Embassy to move to Jerusalem ahead of schedule, by end of 2019, Pence says
  • Lower U.S. business taxes, uncertainty over NAFTA complicate Trudeau's investment pitch in Davos
  • Nearly 100 people submit statements in Winnipeg case under new Canadian victims rights bill
  • Perhaps the Liberals should change their motto to 'Diversity is our strength, sorta': Robyn Urback
  • Why Trump's desire for a protectionist wall threatens more than NAFTA: Don Pittis
  • 'Terrifying': How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail
  • Philippine volcano explodes, authorities raise alert leve
  • Family of bystander killed in Vancouver shooting to speak to media WATCH LIVE: Family and friends of 15-year-old Alfred Wong, the bystander killed in an exchange of gunfire in Vancouver earlier this month speak to the media at 2 p.m PT.
  • USA Gymnastics leaders resign amid sex abuse scandal Three key leaders at USA Gymnastics resigned Monday as more women and girls told a judge about being sexually assaulted at the hands of a sports doctor who spent years with Olympic gymnasts and other female athletes.
  • 5 missing after Oklahoma rig explosion, emergency official says Five people are missing after a fiery explosion ripped through an eastern Oklahoma drilling rig Monday morning, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and leaving a derrick crumpled on the ground, an emergency official said.
  • Champagne says Canada will be constructive, innovative at NAFTA negotiations
  • Fears of global economic upheaval top agenda at Davos
  • More than 500 fossils of new ancient worm species found in B.C.
  • Winnipeg guitarist who left mother to die on floor pleads guilty to negligence
  • Rogers and Vice to end partnership, with Vice hinting at new Canadian plans
  • Social media good for democracy? Facebook admits it can't make that guarantee
  • U.S. Senate approves funding measure to end governm
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