New ownership group takes over Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanvile, Ont.
BOWMANVILLE - Canadian Tire Motorsport Park has been purchased by a new ownership group. The new group is led by Peter Thomson with Chris Pfaff and Alek Krstajic as partners. CTMP is a multi-track motorsport facility outside Bowmanville, Ont., that ope...
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Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling
OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five linguistics experts and an editor...
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Canadian speedskating women win team pursuit gold; finish World Cup season ranked 1st
HAMAR - Ivanie Blondin helped Canada win gold in the team pursuit then followed that up with a bronze in the women's mass start event on Sunday in the final day of ISU World Cup Speed Skating action before the holidays, bringing Canada's long-track sea...
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Highway 1 out of Abbotsford reopened in both directions after flood-related closure
ABBOTSFORD - The B.C. government says Highway 1 out of Abbotsford has been reopened in both directions after being closed due to flooding. The Transportation Ministry says that one eastbound lane opened this morning and both westbound laneson the high...
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Fate of OneBC party uncertain after MLA Dallas Brodie 'removed' as leader
OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says ...
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Man City and Aston Villa win to stay in touch with Premier League leader Arsenal
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester City and Aston Villa kept the pressure on Premier League leader Arsenal with wins on Sunday. Nottingham Forest pulled further away from the relegation zone with a 3-0 victory against To...
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Johannes Lochner stays hot, Germans sweep 2 World Cup bobsled races in Lillehammer
LILLEHAMMER, Norway (AP) - Johannes Lochner's retirement season is shaping up to be his best. Lochner - who will end his career after the Olympics in February - won a World Cup four-man bobsled race for the second consecutive day on Sunday, leading ano...
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New Zealand skier Alice Robinson wins World Cup super-G; Lindsey Vonn 4th
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) - New Zealand's Alice Robinson was already leading the Olympic season's giant slalom standings. Now she's a threat in super-G, too. Robinson won a World Cup super-G on Sunday for her first career victory in the discipline -...
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Man City and Aston Villa win to stay in touch with Premier League leader Arsenal
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester City and Aston Villa kept the pressure on Premier League leader Arsenal with wins on Sunday. Nottingham Forest pulled further away from the relegation zone with a 3-0 victory against Tottenham and Sunderland beat N...
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Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski tells AP of Belarus prison ordeal in first interview after release
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veter...
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