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Canada, Germany sign green-energy deal in bid to power fledgling hydrogen sectors
OTTAWA - Canada and Germany have signed an agreement to team up on green energy innovation and trade, with an eye to hydrogen as the market for the low-carbon fuel heats up.Signed today by the two cou...
Mar 16, 2021

Veteran linebacker Muamba, CFL's top Canadian in 2019, signs with Toronto Argonauts
TORONTO - Veteran linebacker Henoc Muamba, the CFL's top Canadian in 2019, signed with the Toronto Argonauts on Tuesday. Muamba, a 32-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., became a free agent last month. M...
Mar 16, 2021

Canadians playing for top four teams in NCAA women's basketball championship
One Canadian player will be on each of the four top-seeded teams in the NCAA women's basketball championship tournament. Aaliyah Edwards of Kingston, Ont., plays for Connecticut, Laeticia Amihere of M...
Mar 16, 2021

Canada-U.S. Commons committee exploring latest cross-border pipeline flashpoint
WASHINGTON - The latest pipeline dispute between Canada and the United States is back on the agenda in Ottawa. Enbridge vice-president Vern Yu is scheduled to appear today before a special House of Co...
Mar 16, 2021

NACI says AstraZeneca vaccine now recommended for use on seniors
OTTAWA, ON - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) says there is now enough "real-world evidence'' to show the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is both safe and effective for senio...
Mar 16, 2021

2 dead, 2 injured as car drives hits pedestrians in Germany
BERLIN - A car drove into a group of people at a pedestrian crossing in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Tuesday, killing two and leaving another two seriously injured, police said. They describe...
Mar 16, 2021

Canadian men's curling championship final ratings down 33 per cent from 2020
Ratings for the Canadian men's curling final tumbled significantly compared to the championship game in the 2020 season. Brendan Bottcher defeated Wild Card Two's Kevin Koe on Sunday night at Calgary'...
Mar 16, 2021

Former point guard jailed in bribery scheme has book deal
NEW YORK - A former point guard sentenced to prison in 2019 for his role in a college basketball bribery scheme has a book coming out next year. Hanover Square Press announced Tuesday that Merl Code's...
Mar 16, 2021

Canadian Denis Shapovalov crushes Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in Dubai
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Canada's Denis Shapovalov beat Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff 6-1, 6-3 in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday. The third-seeded Shapovalov, from R...
Mar 16, 2021

Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls
JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt a...
Mar 16, 2021