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RDC Athletics announces Athletes of the Week
A track athlete and hockey player have been named this week's RDC Athletics Boston Pizza Athletes of the Week. Shayla Sklaruk, a first year Bachelor of Education student, had an excellent showing at R...
Jan 29, 2019
'Empire' cast member alleges homophobic attack in Chicago
Chicago police have opened a hate crime investigation after a man the department identified as a 36-year-old cast member of the television show “Empire” alleged he was physically attacked ...
Jan 29, 2019
Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder
TORONTO - A serial killer who preyed on men from Toronto’s gay village for years sexually assaulted many of his victims and kept some of their belongings after disposing of their bodies, prosecu...
Jan 29, 2019
Democrats, Republicans alike won't support USMCA with tariffs in place: Brady
WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill won’t back the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement until President Donald Trump ends America’s punitive restrictions on steel and alum...
Jan 29, 2019
Canadian contingent grows at PGA Tour's Phoenix Open
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Two Canadians have secured spots in this week’s PGA Tour stop through qualifying. David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., and Blair Hamilton of Burlington, Ont., survived a four-man ...
Jan 29, 2019
Canada downs Panama 5-1 in Pan Am Games baseball qualifying opener
IBIUNA, Brazil - Wes Darvil homered to tie the game and Daniel Pinero scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch as Canada opened the Pan American Games baseball qualifying tournament with a 5-1 win over...
Jan 29, 2019
Swimmer Benoit Huot announces retirement, won 20 Paralympic medals over career
Canadian swimmer Benoit Huot earned a boatload of medals over a two-decade career that included podium appearances at five straight Paralympic Games and at countless international meets. Reminiscing a...
Jan 29, 2019
Timeline in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur
TORONTO - A timeline of key events in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur based on information released by police: September 2010 _ Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappears from Toronto’...
Jan 29, 2019
US consumers rattled by shutdown, roiling markets
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence tumbled this month to its lowest reading in a year and a half, tested by the partial government shutdown and roiling financial markets. Still, consumer spirits re...
Jan 29, 2019
President Trump dismisses tell-all book as 'made up stories'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is dismissing - and potentially bolstering sales of - a new tell-all book by a former White House aide, calling it “made up stories and fiction.” Cliff ...
Jan 29, 2019