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Trial to start this week in fatal Red Deer stabbing
Jury selection began today for a man due to stand trial in a fatal stabbing in north Red Deer three years ago. Daniel Boyd Sawyer, 34 is charged with second degree murder in the November 18, 2015 inci...
Nov 13, 2018
Wayne Gretzky hopes NHL can move forward after concussion settlement
TORONTO - Daniel Carcillo wants Wayne Gretzky to step up and help the players who protected the hockey legend during his career. But Carcillo, one of the plaintiffs in a concussion lawsuit against the...
Nov 13, 2018
New study sheds light on opioid victims in effort to create better interventions
VANCOUVER - The first snapshots from a project aimed at providing a better picture of people at greatest risk of illicit drug use reveal that an average of nearly 10 Canadians fatally overdosed each d...
Nov 13, 2018
Syracuse profits by handwriting thousands of late-tax notes
ALBANY, N.Y. - A city in New York state has found a novel way of motivating residents to pay their back taxes: personal notes handwritten by city officials. The idea stemmed from an experiment on late...
Nov 13, 2018
Cavalry FC takes Carleton's Gabriel Bitar first overall in CPL-U Sports draft
TORONTO - The Canadian Premier League took another step forward Tuesday with Carleton University forward Gabriel Bitar going first overall to Calgary’s Cavalry FC in the CPL-U Sports draft. Thos...
Nov 13, 2018
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl serves BBQ to wildfire firefighters
CALABASAS, Calif. - Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl doesn’t want firefighters battling the California wildfires to go hungry. Grohl served his Backbeat Barbeque at Fire Station 68 in Calabasas ...
Nov 13, 2018
Newfoundland woman searching for family missing in Northern California
LEWISPORTE, N.L. - A Newfoundland woman is pleading for help finding missing family members nearly 7,000 kilometres away in the California town of Paradise, a fire-ravaged community at the epicentre o...
Nov 13, 2018
Coco the cow hops fence, evades capture: 'I've never had one do that'
CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - A Newfoundland farmer is on the lookout for an escaped cow that hopped his farm’s fence last Thursday. Coco was last spotted on Saturday, two days after she leapt ov...
Nov 13, 2018
Fear of constitutional crisis escalates in U.S.; Canadians can relate
WASHINGTON - The prospect of a constitutional crisis is familiar to Canadians, one that triggers feelings of dread, fear and no small measure of loathing - and now perhaps pity for the United States, ...
Nov 13, 2018
From Audible to Whole Foods: A look at Amazon's empire
NEW YORK - Amazon is hard to escape. Whether you’ve bought shoes at Zappos, picked up milk at Whole Foods or listened to an audiobook on Audible, you’ve been caught up in Amazon’s gr...
Nov 13, 2018