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Minassian makes brief appearance as court grapples with logistics of murder trial
TORONTO - Lawyers say they are close to finalizing details that would allow a trial by Zoom for a man who killed 10 people when he drove a rental van down a busy Toronto sidewalk. Alek Minassian faces...
Oct 22, 2020
Milestone sponsorship deal keeps pro women's hockey association goals in sight
Surviving the COVID-19 pandemic has been harder for women's pro sports than men's because of the financial gap between the two.Women's hockey in Canada was already in transition before the pandemic th...
Oct 22, 2020
Skate America opens shortened, coronavirus-impacted season
When U.S. figure skaters and a few foreigners training in this country kick off the season at Skate America this weekend, it could be a rare opportunity to display their wares. So they will relish the...
Oct 22, 2020
Poland's top court rules out abortions for birth defects
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's top court has ruled that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional. The decision by the country's constitutional Court on Thursday effect...
Oct 22, 2020
Plot thickens over origins of pope's civil union endorsement
VATICAN CITY - Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis' bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was ...
Oct 22, 2020
New Tory motion could trigger second confidence showdown for Liberal minority
OTTAWA - One day after surviving a confidence vote on a Conservative motion, Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government faces another Conservative motion that could trigger yet more high-stakes dram...
Oct 22, 2020
James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country's foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announ...
Oct 22, 2020
EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition
BRUSSELS - The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko'...
Oct 22, 2020
The Latest: Werder Bremen player tests positive for virus
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ German soccer club Werder Bremen says one of its players has tested positive for the coronavirus and the team's tr...
Oct 22, 2020
Mixed Philippine reaction on pope nod on gay civil unions
MANILA, Philippines - Pope Francis' endorsement of same-sex civil unions drew mixed reactions Thursday in the Philippines, Asia's bastion of Catholicism, with a retired bishop saying he was scandalize...
Oct 22, 2020