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Hopes remain for Rideau Canal Skateway opening after last year’s historic closure
OTTAWA - Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips says he's hopeful Ottawa's famed Rideau Canal will open for skating this year despite winter's slow start. Last year's unseasonal warmth...
Jan 08, 2024

911 transcripts reveal chaotic scene as gunman killed 18 people in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Emergency calls pouring into dispatch centers as a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle reflected the chaos of the unfolding situation as shots rang out first at a bowling a...
Jan 08, 2024

MLS club CF Montreal hires Laurent Courtois as new head coach
MONTREAL - CF Montreal has hired Laurent Courtois as its new head coach. Courtois spent the last two seasons as head coach of Columbus Crew 2, the reserve team of Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew. ...
Jan 08, 2024

Ticats head coach Milanovich says Rourke's NFL season was a successful one
He split his first NFL season between two teams and didn't play a down but Scott Milanovich still considers Canadian Nathan Rourke's stint south of the border a success. Rourke, 25, dressed with both ...
Jan 08, 2024

Woman fears pregnant sister-in-law won't qualify for family program to escape Gaza
OTTAWA - An Ontario woman fears her brother's death in Gaza will disqualify his pregnant wife from a forthcoming program to help extended family escape to safety. The federal government is expected to...
Jan 08, 2024

Reinhart, Jones, Hellebuyck named NHL's three stars of the week
NEW YORK - Florida Panthers centre Sam Reinhart, Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Martin Jones and Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Reinhart ...
Jan 08, 2024

Tiger Woods, Nike end partnership after more than 27 years
Tiger Woods is no longer a Nike athlete after 27 years, ending a partnership between the swoosh and golf's biggest star and raising questions about the future of both in the sport. Woods in a social m...
Jan 08, 2024

Mobile mammography service to visit Olds next month
Women ages 45 to 74 - the group most at risk of developing breast cancer - will have local access to mammography services next month when Alberta Health Services' Screen Test program visits Olds. Offi...
Jan 08, 2024

Man caught on camera accosting a Las Vegas judge in court is sentenced in an unrelated attack
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The same judge accosted by a defendant in a Las Vegas courtroom last week sentenced her attacker Monday to up to four years in prison in an unrelated case. Deobra Delone Redden leapt ...
Jan 08, 2024

Alberta RCMP and law enforcement partners launch Operation Cold Start
As the temperatures drop and the snow starts to fall, the Alberta RCMP will once again be partnering with law enforcement partners across the province for Operation Cold Start from Jan. 8 - 12, 2024. ...
Jan 08, 2024