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Clutterbuck, Barzal help Islanders end skid, defeat Jets 6-3
NEW YORK (AP) - Cal Clutterbuck scored twice, Mathew Barzal and Hudson Fasching each had a goal and two assists and the New York Islanders snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win against the W...
Mar 23, 2024
Longtime Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos dies at 94
BALTIMORE (AP) - Peter Angelos, owner of a Baltimore Orioles team that endured long losing stretches and shrewd proprietor of a law firm that won high-profile cases against industry titans, died Satur...
Mar 23, 2024
What people are saying about former prime minister Brian Mulroney at his funeral
OTTAWA - Family members, friends, political dignitaries and celebrities packed Montreal's storied Notre Dame Basilica on Saturday for the funeral of Brian Mulroney. The former prime minister died Feb....
Mar 23, 2024
Western Crop Innovations launches April 1 in Lacombe
The Government of Alberta announced this week that it is relaunching the Field Crop Development Centre in Lacombe as Western Crops Innovations (WCI).Launched in 1973, the FCDC has, in recent years, be...
Mar 23, 2024
Peterman and Gallant win bronze at Canadian Mixed Doubles
Jocelyn Peterman, originally from Red Deer, and mixed doubles partner Brett Gallant (Charlottetown) are headed to Olympic Trials in December after a bronze medal finish at this week's 2024 Canadian Mi...
Mar 23, 2024
Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate's early-morning passage ended shutdown threat
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of...
Mar 23, 2024
Members of the public brave snowfall, frigid temperatures to honour Brian Mulroney
MONTREAL - A handful of mourners gathered outside the security barrier surrounding Old Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica this morning, braving snow and frigid temperatures to pay respects to Brian Mulron...
Mar 23, 2024
Beyond Food Community Hub promoting period equity in Blackfalds
A program in Blackfalds continues to push for Changing the Cycle.The Beyond Food Community Hub in the central Alberta town launched Changing the Cycle in 2022 hoping to make it easier for people who m...
Mar 23, 2024
Witness heard sputtering from Ontario family's plane before Nashville crash: report
A preliminary report from U.S. authorities probing a plane crash in Tennessee that killed a family of five from Ontario said one witness heard "sputtering" and "popping" sounds from the aircraft's eng...
Mar 23, 2024
Canadian Thompson captures World Cup women's skicross race, overall crown
IDRE FJLL, Sweden - Another year, another women's skicross World Cup title for Canadian Marielle Thompson. Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., earned her sixth victory of the World Cup season Saturday. She d...
Mar 23, 2024