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'Black Panther' leads MTV Movie & TV Awards nominations
LOS ANGELES - “Black Panther” will get its first shot at some awards show love as the top nominee at next month’s MTV Movie & TV Awards . The global smash hit garnered seven nomi...
May 3, 2018
Winnipeg Jets forward Joel Armia returns to lineup for Game 4 against Nashville
WINNIPEG - Joel Armia says he will be in the lineup tonight when the Winnipeg Jets host the Nashville Predators in Game 4 of their second-round playoff series. The winger hasn’t suited up since ...
May 3, 2018
Pot plan proceeding apace, Trudeau insists, despite calls for delay
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t backing down from his government’s much-maligned timeline for legalizing marijuana, despite a growing chorus of calls from senators, Indigenous...
May 3, 2018
Bill Torrey, GM of Isles' 4 Stanley Cups, dies at 83
SUNRISE, Fla. - Bill Torrey, the jovial bow-tie wearing Hall of Famer who was the general manager of the New York Islanders when they won four consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1980s and eventually beca...
May 3, 2018
Sohi unfazed by watchdog report showing provinces spend less as feds spend more
OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi says he is not concerned by a recent report that shows provinces are spending less on new roads, bridges and water systems, even as the federal governmen...
May 3, 2018
Q&A with Lac Seul First Nation Chief Clifford Bull, candidate in northern riding
FRENCHMAN’S HEAD, Ont. - Kiiwetinoong is one of two new northern Ontario ridings and the only one in the province with an Indigenous majority. It is home to about 32,000 people in four municipal...
May 3, 2018
Alberta Health Services expands pork recall due to possible E. coli bacteria
EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services is expanding a pork recall after an E. coli outbreak sickened 37 people - including 11 patients who were hospitalized and one who likely died from the bacteria. Offi...
May 3, 2018
Kiiwetinoong: Vast new northern Ontario riding fledges wings as vote looms
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. - From the shadows of the hill in the south on which the Ojibwa once watched for the invading Sioux, to the frozen mouth of the almost 1,000-kilometre-long majestic Severn River in...
May 3, 2018
Canada Post Group reports 2017 profit up as parcel business swells
OTTAWA - The Canada Post Group of Companies reported a profit of $144 million for 2017, up from $81 million in 2016, as its parcel business grew amid the popularity of online shopping. The improved pr...
May 3, 2018
Journalist Justin Brake of The Independent in NL wins press freedom award
OTTAWA - Justin Brake, a journalist who faces civil and criminal charges over his reporting about the impact of the Muskrat Falls hydro project on Indigenous people, has won the 20th annual Press Free...
May 3, 2018