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Feds given green light to award warship contract after tribunal reverses course
OTTAWA - The federal government can award a contract to design the country’s $60-billion fleet of new warships after a trade tribunal reversed an earlier order not to finish the deal. The Canadi...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian physicist who won Nobel Prize touts science for the sake of science
Winning a Nobel Prize changed nearly everything about Donna Strickland’s professional life except the principles that helped shape it in the first place. The University of Waterloo professor has...
Dec 11, 2018
Jayson Stark wins Hall of Fame's Spink Award
LAS VEGAS - Jayson Stark, acclaimed for mixing humour with impeccable knowledge during more than four decades of commentary, has won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseba...
Dec 11, 2018
David Shoemaker named chief executive officer of Canadian Olympic Committee
David Shoemaker’s inside knowledge of Beijing should be an asset for Canadian athletes competing there in 2022. Shoemaker, named chief executive officer of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Tues...
Dec 11, 2018
Prairie police chiefs call on Ottawa for help as meth-fuelled crime skyrockets
OTTAWA - Police chiefs say methamphetamine is fuelling a crime wave in some of Western Canada’s biggest cities as use of the highly addictive drug skyrockets across the Prairies. Calgary’s...
Dec 11, 2018
Trump to envoy Canada says Huawei arrest not political, but China rise is worrying
OTTAWA - China’s economic and political rise may be bad news for North American workers but the U.S. pursuit of a Huawei executive is a separate legal matter, says Donald Trump’s envoy to ...
Dec 11, 2018
Festival of Trees raises $1.1 million for Red Deer Regional Hospital
Officials with the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation (RDRHF) have announced this year's Festival of Trees has raised $1.1 million. Held at Westerner Park from November 21-25, this year's 25th Annual...
Dec 11, 2018
Gunman kills 4, then himself, after Mass at Brazil cathedral
RIO DE JANEIRO - A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding four more before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and...
Dec 11, 2018
Postal union challenges constitutionality of government's back-to-work bill
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post employees is taking the Trudeau government to court over the legislation that ended rotating strikes by its members. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers sa...
Dec 11, 2018
Lions hire former Stampeders DC DeVone Claybrooks as head coach
VANCOUVER - DeVone Claybrooks has finally found the right place to become a head coach. There have been other job opportunities in both the CFL and NFL, the 41-year-old said, but something was always ...
Dec 11, 2018