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Potential Wolfpack owner Carlo LiVolsi says he will take care of players
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack are currently a team without a league, an insolvent rugby league franchise whose missed payroll totals some 500,000 pounds ($854,620). But where others see a sporti...
Sep 09, 2020

Steve Nash eager to get started on new career as Nets coach
NEW YORK - Steve Nash was a leader, a guy who loved to get the best out of his teammates on the court and build relationships with them off it. Those qualities helped the Canadian become a Hall of Fam...
Sep 09, 2020

ALUS Red Deer County receives funding to help manage sensitive land
ALUS Red Deer County will tackle riparian health and manage sensitive marginal land with help from new funding from ALUS Canada's New Acre Project. ALUS Canada announced a new, $100,000 New Acre Proje...
Sep 09, 2020

Official claims pressure to alter Homeland Security intel
WASHINGTON - An official at the Department of Homeland Security said in a whistle-blower complaint released Wednesday that he was pressured by agency leaders to suppress details in his intelligence re...
Sep 09, 2020

Duvernay-Tardif will study at Harvard instead of playing in 2020 NFL season
MONTREAL - Super Bowl champion and Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif will spend the next few months studying at one of the world's most prestigious universities. T...
Sep 09, 2020

McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize
NEW YORK - Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honour for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books. The nominees, six eac...
Sep 09, 2020

Derek Sloan says no regrets over failed bid for Conservative leadership
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Derek Sloan, who finished last in the party's recent leadership race, says he has no regrets about his campaign. Sloan says he supports the winner of the race, Erin O'Toole, a...
Sep 09, 2020

Six First Nations in Alberta acquire equity stake in $1.5-billion power plant project
CALGARY - The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) has announced its first commitment to provide a loan guarantee to a consortium of six Alberta First Nations to enable their participat...
Sep 09, 2020

Mandela's lawyer, anti-apartheid activist George Bizos dies
JOHANNESBURG - Anti-apartheid crusader and Nelson Mandela's personal lawyer George Bizos has died at 92, his family said Wednesday. He died of natural causes at home, the family said. Bizos, who came ...
Sep 09, 2020

NY doctor charged in serial sexual assaults on patients
NEW YORK - A former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing dozens of patients, including the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, was charged Wednesday with attacki...
Sep 09, 2020