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Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville claims Tournament of Hearts playoff berth
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville secured the fourth and final playoff spot at the Canadian women's curling championship Friday. McCarville defeated Prince Edward Island 6-5 ...
Feb 21, 2020

Armani rails against baring trends by fellow designers
MILAN - How much to show and how much not to show, that is the fashion question this season. It may be reductive to say that runway shows are about how women dress. But the conversation has sharpened ...
Feb 21, 2020

Parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme
BOSTON - A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty Friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Su...
Feb 21, 2020

Bloomberg says 3 women can be released from NDAs
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly abo...
Feb 21, 2020

Taber hosting Firefighters Curling Championship in 2021
TABER, AB - It will be the first time in 45 years that an Albertan community south of Calgary has hosted the Alberta Firefighters Curling Association's Annual Championship.The event, running from Janu...
Feb 21, 2020 (Supplied by Taber Curling Club)

New presidential elections key to solving Venezuelan crisis: Colombian envoy
OTTAWA - Fleeing Venezuelans - all 1.4 million of them - will always be welcome in his country, says Colombia's ambassador to Canada, but his real hope is that they are able to one day retur...
Feb 21, 2020

Attempted theft of seaplane ends with collision in Vancouver harbour
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are investigating after a float plane was badly damaged in what appears to have been a botched theft. Const. Tanya Visintin says officers were called to the c...
Feb 21, 2020

Raposo fashioned her love of boxing into career as rare female ring announcer
TORONTO - Yvette Raposo believes boxing is the perfect blend of beauty and brutality. "The beauty we see, for those of us in boxing, is its art form - the strategy, the dancing, the footwork, the exch...
Feb 21, 2020

Humphries leads at midpoint of bobsled world championships
ALTENBERG, Germany - Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is the leader at the midway point of the women's bobsled world championship, after posting the fastest time in each of Friday's first two runs of the...
Feb 21, 2020

Several people arrested at north Lethbridge homes for drug-related complaints
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police Service's (LPS) Crime Suppression Team arrested at least five people from two homes on the 1800 block of 1 Ave North Friday afternoon.Sgt. Rod Pastoor told LNN that ...
Feb 21, 2020 (Lethbridge News Now)