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Man accused of sexually assaulting three SCS workers denied bail
LETHBRIDGE, AB - 35-year-old Trevor Plaited Hair appeared in Lethbridge Provincial Court Tuesday to answer to three charges of sexual assault, one count of assault, one count of uttering death threats...
Aug 28, 2019
Canada ends pre-FIBA World Cup schedule with tough 84-68 loss to United States
SYDNEY, Australia - Canada men's basketball coach Nick Nurse says his team needs to "flush" its last exhibition performance after ending World Cup preparations with an ugly 84-68 loss to the Unit...
Aug 28, 2019
This time, Trudeau keeps low profile at G7 as election campaign looms
BIARRITZ, France - He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Aug 28, 2019
Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew should 'come clean'
LONDON - One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain's Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the centre of the ongoing investigation. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, spe...
Aug 28, 2019
Toyota, Suzuki partnering in self-driving car technology
TOKYO - Japan's top automaker, Toyota, and smaller rival Suzuki are partnering in the development of self-driving car technology, as manufacturers around the world grapple with innovations in the indu...
Aug 28, 2019
Iran says oil on tanker pursued by US sold; buyer unnamed
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the centre of a crisis ...
Aug 28, 2019
In the news today, Aug. 28
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 28 --- FIRST INTERIOR SHOTS OF HMS TERROR RELEASED Parks Canada has released the first pictures from inside the HMS Terror, one of the two sh...
Aug 28, 2019
'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released
It remains, despite nearly two centuries beneath the Arctic seas, amazingly shipshape. First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, ne...
Aug 28, 2019
Closing arguments in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary
CALGARY - Closing arguments are scheduled today in the trial of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who...
Aug 28, 2019
Cities to parties: Spend more to fill housing-plan gaps for seniors, Indigenous
OTTAWA - Canada's cities are asking federal parties to add more than $500 million a year to the national government's decade-long housing strategy. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says the m...
Aug 28, 2019