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Laval guard Sarah-Jane Marois earns top individual award in women's basketball
TORONTO - Laval Rouge et Or guard Sarah-Jane Marois has been named the player of the year in Canadian women’s university basketball. Marois received the Nan Copp Award from U Sports on Wednesday...
Mar 06, 2019
NDP says proposed Saskatchewan trespass law changes are divisive
REGINA - An Opposition member is accusing the Saskatchewan government of playing wedge politics and excluding Indigenous voices with its proposed changes to the province’s trespass laws. Buckley...
Mar 06, 2019
Beverley McLachlin to investigate B.C. legislature spending allegations
VICTORIA - A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada has been selected to investigate allegations of spending abuses at British Columbia’s legislature. Beverley McLachlin’s app...
Mar 06, 2019
Canadian rising star Bianca Andreescu advances to second round at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Canada’s Bianca Andreescu advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters series tennis tournament with a 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3 win over Romania’s Irina-Camelia...
Mar 06, 2019
Five things Canada learned at the justice committee from Butts, Drouin
OTTAWA - Five things we heard Wednesday as the House of Commons justice committee heard from Gerald Butts, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as Privy Council clerk M...
Mar 06, 2019
Judge rules on three Stephan applications, reserves decision on voluntariness until Thursday
LETHBRIDGE – Court of Queen’s Bench Justice J.D. Rooke, who is overseeing a case management hearing in Lethbridge for David and Collet Stephan, has adjourned two of the couple’s appl...
Mar 06, 2019
Century-old Blackfoot headdress found in thrift store returned to First Nation
CALGARY - A more than century-old Blackfoot headdress that was dropped in a thrift store bin has been returned to a First Nation east of Calgary. An Alberta government spokeswoman says someone made a ...
Mar 06, 2019
Amazon to close all its pop-up shops
NEW YORK - Amazon said Wednesday that it will shut down all its pop-up shops and focus on opening more of its bookstores as it rethinks its brick-and-mortar strategy. The online retail giant has 87 po...
Mar 06, 2019
EPA says 2017 model year vehicle mileage increased slightly
DETROIT - New vehicles in the U.S. from the 2017 model year averaged slightly better gas mileage than the previous year, rising to a record 24.9 mpg, according to an annual report from the Environment...
Mar 06, 2019
'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek says he has pancreatic cancer
LOS ANGELES - “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek said he has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer but intends to fight the disease and keep on working. In a video posted online Wednesd...
Mar 06, 2019