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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump's trade policies and wall spat bring simmering tensions between Mexican farmers and their Government to the surface.
Topics: agreements-and-treaties, fruit, farm-labour, immigration, vegetables, united-states, canada
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If Australian lawmakers can learn anything from Canada's experience with euthanasia, it's that difficult issues don't finish with passing the law.
Topics: ethics, euthanasia, health, medical-ethics, canada
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| UpdatedA leaked video showing a frightened dog trying to resist being thrown into water on the set of A Dog's Purpose has prompted calls for the film to be boycotted.
Topics: animal-welfare, film-movies, canada
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| UpdatedParts of Central Australian have welcomed more rain after a thorough soak weeks earlier, turning the Red Centre green.
Topics: rainfall, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, rural, weather, beef-cattle, yulara-0872, italy, canada
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| UpdatedAn Australian snowboarder survives a hair-raising descent in Canada, riding an avalanche down a steep hillside with the help of his inflatable backpack.
Topics: extreme-sports, human-interest, disasters-and-accidents, snowfall, canada, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedFootage shows Tom Oye caught in an avalanche while skiing in Canada.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, canada
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| UpdatedCanadian police charge a Sunwing Airlines pilot with impairment after he is allegedly found passed out over his seat before take-off with a blood-alcohol level exceeding .08.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, canada
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| UpdatedIraqi Christians in Bartella celebrate their first Christmas mass in the town since it was captured by the Islamic State group in 2014.
Topics: christmas, christianity, holy-see-vatican-city-state, canada, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied, france, iraq
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Water untouched for two billion years is found three kilometres underground in Canada, making it the oldest water in the world.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, space-exploration, water, environment, canada
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| UpdatedAlan Thicke, star of 1980s US sitcom Growing Pains, dies aged 69, reportedly while playing hockey with his 19-year-old son.
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, death, united-states, canada
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Already elevated petrol prices are tipped to spike in the week leading up to Christmas after oil-producing countries agreed to production cuts.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia, russian-federation, canada, saudi-arabia
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| UpdatedResidents of a small town in Canada are being invited to pay their parking fines forward by donating to charity as part of the town's Christmas-inspired Scrooge the Ticket program.
Topics: government-and-politics, human-interest, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, canada
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not be attending the funeral of Fidel Castro amid an uproar over his recent comments praising the late Cuban leader.
Topics: government-and-politics, communism, death, canada, cuba
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defends his initially warm comments about Fidel Castro after his death, saying the late Cuban leader was a dictator, but had "a deep and lasting impact on the Cuban people".
Topics: communism, government-and-politics, cuba, canada
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose family's ties with the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro go back decades, mourns the loss of a "remarkable leader", sparking a flurry of criticism and humour at his favourable tone.
Topics: death, communism, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, canada, cuba
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| UpdatedA polar bear and a Canadian eskimo dog appear to become unlikely friends, after a tour guide films the pair interacting happily.
Topics: human-interest, animals, offbeat, canada
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| UpdatedSinger-songwriter Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after falling down in the middle of the night at his Los Angeles home, his manager says.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, canada
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| UpdatedBob Dylan may have won the literary world's highest honour, the Nobel Prize, but even he knew he did not deserve it as much as Leonard Cohen, says Clive James.
Topics: music-industry, music, awards-and-prizes, arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, australia, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedLegendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known best for his haunting hit song Hallelujah, has died at the age of 82.
Topics: music, community-and-society, death, arts-and-entertainment, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedSome of the most well known and loved songs of the late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen who has died age 82.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, canada
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| UpdatedPeople around the world pay tribute to late legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known best for his haunting hit song Hallelujah, after he died at the age of 82.
Topics: community-and-society, death, music, arts-and-entertainment, united-states, canada
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Hundreds of delegates from around the world have gathered for an indigenous health and wellbeing conference in Melbourne.
Topics: indigenous-other-peoples, indigenous-policy, canada
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| UpdatedCanada's main immigration website appears to repeatedly crash as United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the race for the White House.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, government-and-politics, offbeat, united-states, canada
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A Canadian laboratory worker is in isolation amid concerns he has been accidentally exposed to Ebola while handling infected pigs, government officials say.
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| UpdatedMeet the Canadian minister who has come out as an atheist, but wants to continue leading her congregation at West Hill United Church.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, christianity, atheism, canada