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Ovechkin to skip NHL All-Star Game, be suspended 1 game
Alex Ovechkin will skip the NHL’s All-Star Weekend in San Jose to get some extra rest and serve an automatic one-game suspension. The Washington Capitals announced Ovechkin’s decision Wedn...
Jan 02, 2019
Swiss juniors upset top-ranked Sweden in world hockey quarterfinal shocker
VICTORIA - Switzerland is brimming with confidence at the world junior hockey championship after defeating top-ranked Sweden 2-0 Wednesday in a quarterfinal upset. Swiss netminder Luca Hollenstein shu...
Jan 02, 2019
Carrie Ann Inaba gets host gig on 'The Talk'
LOS ANGELES - Carrie Ann Inaba is no longer a temp on “The Talk.” The CBS daytime show announced Wednesday that Inaba has joined the panel of hosts, moving up from recurring guest host. &#...
Jan 02, 2019
Fourth federal riding falls vacant as PM poised to call three byelections
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is poised to call byelections in three federal ridings within days and now he has a fourth vacant riding he may choose to fill at the same time. Sheila Malcolmso...
Jan 02, 2019
Canadian defender Easther Mayi Kith signs with France's Montpellier
Canadian defender Easther Mayi Kith, who played 89 career matches for West Virginia University, has signed with Montpellier HSC in the top French women’s league. The 21-year-old from Quebec City...
Jan 02, 2019
Peace bond hearing withdrawn for B.C. couple cleared in legislature terror plot
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man and woman who were cleared of terror charges due to RCMP entrapment are allowed to live freely for the first time in years after prosecutors dropped a bid to restric...
Jan 02, 2019
Veteran Canadian soccer official Morgan Quarry let go after 19 years
Morgan Quarry, who worked with 10 different head coaches of the Canadian men’s soccer team, is no longer with the Canadian Soccer Association after 19 years on the job. An association spokesman ...
Jan 02, 2019
2018 a 'tough year' for local real estate
"It's been a pretty tough past 12 months." That from Richard Pochylko, the newly-elected President of the Central Alberta Realtors Association (CARA) in describing 2018 for the local real estate indus...
Jan 02, 2019
Raptors expecting hostile reception for Leonard in return to San Antonio
TORONTO - Two days after being serenaded by chants of “M-V-P!” in Toronto, Raptors star Kawhi Leonard is about to return to an arena where fans won’t be nearly so kind. San Antonio&#...
Jan 02, 2019
NHL's potential UFA class could make for another exciting July 1
Mark Stone made it clear he wants to stay in the nation’s capital. Now it’s up to the Ottawa Senators and the winger’s agent to get it done. And they aren’t alone in a league w...
Jan 02, 2019