Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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‘Play until you can’t:’ Bronco focuses on sledge hockey instead of anniversary
OKOTOKS, Alta. - At the end of a long and difficult year, Ryan Straschnitzki is on the ice and his hockey dream is intact. Straschnitzki and his Humboldt Broncos teammates were on their way to a Saska...
Mar 18, 2019
Blair mulling ways to close loophole in Safe Third Country Agreement
OTTAWA - Border Security Minister Bill Blair says he is talking to lawmakers in the United States about closing a loophole in Canada's border agreement with the U.S. - one seen as giving asylum-seeker...
Mar 15, 2019
Baby travelling to see grandfather among Canadian victims in Ethiopian crash
One of the youngest victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash is nine-month-old Canadian Rubi Pauls, who was on the way to Kenya from Ontario to meet her grandfather for the first time for Easter. The g...
Mar 12, 2019
R. Kelly: ‘We’re going to straighten all this stuff out’
CHICAGO - R&B singer R. Kelly walked out of a Chicago jail on Saturday, shortly after someone paid $161,000 that he owed in back child support. Kelly, who was ordered taken into custody on Wednesd...
Mar 09, 2019
Rebuilt Humboldt Broncos make SJHL playoffs after devastating bus crash
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - The rebuilt Humboldt Broncos hockey team is heading to the playoffs. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team was devastated after its bus and a transport truck collided at a rural...
Mar 06, 2019
Saskatchewan man kept in segregation for more than 2,000 days: advocates
REGINA - Prisoners advocates are asking a Federal Court to intervene in the case of a Dene man from northern Saskatchewan who they say has spent most of his adult life in segregation and is at risk of...
Mar 05, 2019
Hall of Famer (Terrible) Ted Lindsay remembered as a force on and off the ice
TORONTO - (Terrible) Ted Lindsay, a hard-nosed star winger who formed Detroit's famed Production Line with Gordie Howe and Sid Abel, has died. He was 93. The NHL Alumni Association confirmed his death...
Mar 04, 2019 Hockey legend Ted Lindsay arrives at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament for the funeral of Gordie Howe, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 in Detroit. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Carlos Osorio
Manziel CFL experiment is over
The Johnny Manziel experiment is over. The CFL terminated the former Heisman Trophy winner's contract with the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday. The league also informed the eight remaining clubs that ...
Feb 27, 2019
Five things we learned from Wilson-Raybould at the justice committee
OTTAWA - Five things Canadians learned from former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, in her testimony Wednesday at the House of Commons justice committee. 1. Wilson-Raybould said there were at le...
Feb 27, 2019 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a media availability in Montreal on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Partial waiver enough for Wilson-Raybould to tell truth in SNC affair: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Despite limits on what she can say about things that happened more recently, former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will be able to speak freely about what pressure she felt not to purs...
Feb 27, 2019 Former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould walks to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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