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'Birds of Prey' flies low on Oscars weekend with tepid debut
LOS ANGELES - "Birds of Prey," the DC Comics' Harley Quinn spinoff, made a tepid debut in theatres over the weekend, opening in No. 1 but below expectations with $33.3 million domestically, according ...
Feb 09, 2020
'100 per cent racial': Indigenous hockey player's dad rejects report on verbal abuse
WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton concluded the verbal abuse did...
Feb 09, 2020
'100 per cent racial': Indigenous hockey player's dad rejects report on verbal abuse
WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton concluded the verbal abuse did...
Feb 09, 2020
Canada's Vasek Pospisil loses to Gael Monfils in Open Sud de France final
MONTPELLIER, France - Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil lost to top-seeded Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the Open Sud de France on Sunday. Pospisil had hoped to win his first ATP Tour trophy in his s...
Feb 09, 2020
Feds to fund urgent research into new coronavirus, including social impacts
OTTAWA - As governments and health agencies around the world race to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the federal funding agency for health research is set to back work ...
Feb 09, 2020
Parents in Montreal start petition to add windows to 'bunker-like' school
MONTREAL - Five days a week, students at a high school in one of Montreal's poorest districts spend all day learning math and science in classrooms without windows. In the win...
Feb 09, 2020
DeBues-Stafford breaks her own women's indoor mile record at Millrose Games
NEW YORK - Gabriela DeBues-Stafford continued her attack on the Canadian record books on Saturday. The 24-year-old from Toronto sliced more than five seconds off her own Canadian indoor mile record to...
Feb 09, 2020
'Oil is going to move:' Calls for pipelines after fiery train derailment
GUERNSEY, Sask. - The reeve of a Saskatchewan municipality where a second fiery train derailment has occurred in less than two months says it's time for the federal government to look more seriou...
Feb 09, 2020
'My freedom and my life were stolen from me,' says Diab, suing over extradition
Ottawa sociology professor Hassan Diab says his long fight against accusations of terrorism wiped out his savings and caused chronic stress, depression and severe insomnia, prompting hi...
Feb 09, 2020
Liberals face heat as cost of Trans Mountain expansion hits $12.6 billion
OTTAWA - Expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline will now cost at least $12.6 billion - up from a three-year-old estimate of $7.4 billion on a project Finance Minister Bill Morn...
Feb 09, 2020