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Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid set to return from injury vs Kings
LOS ANGELES - Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid will return to the lineup Sunday night against the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers captain has missed six games since suffering a quadriceps i...
Feb 23, 2020

Weinstein jury indicates it is split on most serious counts
NEW YORK - The jury in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial indicated Friday that it is deadlocked on the most serious charges, but the judge told the panel it must keep working. In a note to the judge late ...
Feb 23, 2020

HJHL Playoffs: Wranglers take game one against Vipers
While NHL teams were deploying emergency backups and scoring nine goals in a single game on Saturday, the Red Deer Vipers and Sylvan Lake Wranglers were starting their first playoff series together wi...
Feb 23, 2020

Ontario's Homan into Hearts final with 8-3 win over Jones wild-card team
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Ontario's Rachel Homan advanced to the final of the Canadian women's curling championship with an 8-3 semifinal win over the Jennifer Jones wild-card team Sunday. Homan, a...
Feb 23, 2020

Ottawa, province, First Nations sign deal to protect southern mountain caribou
VANCOUVER - A historic agreement to save endangered southern mountain caribou in northeast British Columbia has been recognized as reconciliation in action, coming on the same day tensions p...
Feb 23, 2020

Former Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch has book deal
NEW YORK - Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump offered a chilling account of alleged threats from Trump and h...
Feb 23, 2020

Alice Munro among Nobel Prize winners urging Trudeau to deny oilsands project
Canadian author Alice Munro and dozens of other Nobel Prize winners around the world have joined the heated opposition facing a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta, decrying the proposed deve...
Feb 23, 2020

Hurricanes to bring emergency backup goalie Ayers to Raleigh for game
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes aren't done with David Ayers just yet. Ayres, a 42-year-old Zamboni driver for the AHL's Toronto Marlies, was forced to be Carolina's emergency goalie for ...
Feb 23, 2020

Violent ends to past Indigenous protests haunt Trudeau government
OTTAWA - The ghosts of Indigenous protests past have hovered over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government struggles to bring a peaceful end to blockades that have disrupted traffic o...
Feb 23, 2020

Ombudsman calls for national consultations, plan for supporting veterans
OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is calling for nationwide consultations to develop a much-needed vision and plan to support veterans and their families with all their needs. The call by ve...
Feb 23, 2020