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Puerto Ricans call for governor's resignation after Hurricane Maria supplies found in warehouse

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Category: World News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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Puerto Ricans poured into the streets of San Juan on Monday calling for the resignation of Gov. Wanda Vazquez.
The protests come days after Hurricane Maria supplies were found in a warehouse over the weekend in the city of Ponce, on Puerto Rico's southern coast.
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Central American migrants scuffle with Mexican troops along border river

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Category: World News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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CIUDAD HIDALGO, MEXICO -- Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man's land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico after running up against lines of Mexican National Guard troops deployed to keep them from moving en masse into the country and on north toward the U.S.
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Oil and gas industry needs to do more to address climate change, IEA report says

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Category: Economic
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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CALGARY -- The oil and gas industry needs to increase efforts to address climate change or risk becoming socially unacceptable and unprofitable, according to a new International Energy Agency report.
"No energy company will be unaffected by clean energy transitions," said Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, in a statement Monday.
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Prosecutors seek prison terms for accused in Canadian gold coin heist

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Category: World News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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BERLIN -- German prosecutors are seeking lengthy prison terms for four men accused of staging the brazen theft of a 100-kilogram (221-pound) Canadian gold coin that disappeared from a Berlin museum almost three years ago.
The dpa news agency reported Monday that prosecutors have asked Berlin’s region court to sentence two of the men to seven years in prison and the two others to six and five years each.
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CETA can serve as template for post-Brexit Canada-U.K. trade deal

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Category: Economic
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CTV News
CALGARY -- Canada's trade agreement with the European Union should serve as a template for a future trade deal between Canada and a post-Brexit United Kingdom, according to an official with the British High Commission in Ottawa.
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Asian stocks tumble on growing concern about China virus

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Category: Economic
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CTV News
BEIJING -- Asian stock markets tumbled Tuesday as concern about the economic impact of a Chinese disease outbreak rose.
Japan's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged and revised up its economic growth outlook.
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Atlantic storm causes Newfoundlanders to step up for their neighbours

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Category: Canada News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CTV News
TORONTO -- Newfoundlanders have been lending a helping hand to their neighbours after an unprecedented amount of snow hit the Atlantic region.
Amidst the remnants of last week’s blizzard, there were handfuls of so-called “shovel brigades” and volunteers pushing snowblowers across St.
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Fraud allegations a facade, Meng lawyer argues as extradition hearing begins

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Category: Canada News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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VANCOUVER -- Fraud allegations against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are a "facade" and charges filed by the United States are really about the country trying to enforce its sanctions on Iran, a defence lawyer has argued.
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Boys and young men more likely to die than girls and young women, study finds

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Category: Canada News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CBC News
A new Canadian study shows boys and young men are more likely to die than girls and young women, and they have a greater chance of dying due to injury, particularly from age 14 onwards.
The study, published this month in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, looked at 3.1 million children born in Ontario between 1990 and 2016 and examined who died and from what cause between the ages of one and 24.
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'Pretty traumatizing': Innocent man handcuffed outside Vancouver bank questions institution's apology

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Category: Canada News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CTV News
VANCOUVER -- Maxwell Johnson says he was just trying to open a bank account for his granddaughter at the bank where he's been a customer for five years.
Instead, the Indigenous man from Bella Bella, B.C.
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This was the most-borrowed library book in some of Canada's biggest cities

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Category: Canada News
Created: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
CTV News
TORONTO -- Bookworms made former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” the most-borrowed library book in some of Canada’s biggest cities last year.
At the Toronto Public Library, which boasts one of the “busiest public library systems in the world,” Obama’s book nabbed the top spot for 2019.
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Tax revolt? Unpaid taxes from energy companies to Alberta towns more than double

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Category: Economic
Created: Monday, January 20, 2020
CTV News
The amount of unpaid property taxes that oil and gas companies owe Alberta rural municipalities has more than doubled over the last year, a trend some are calling a tax revolt.
Rural Municipalities Alberta said Monday that a survey of its members shows that they are owed a total of $173 million -- a 114 per cent increase since a similar survey was done last spring.
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