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Moose Jaw wants to challenge Norway for tallest moose statue title
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - The City of Moose Jaw, Sask., is on the antlers of a dilemma - how to reclaim the title of having the world's tallest moose statue? For decades its Mac the Moose statue held the rec...
Jan 17, 2019
Lowry collects 5,000th career assist, Siakam sinks winning bucket for Raptors
TORONTO - After collecting his 5,000th career assist on the night, Kyle Lowry got the ball. But Pascal Siakam got the win. With Kawhi Leonard resting for the second game of a back-to-back, Toronto coa...
Jan 17, 2019
Court rules Texas can bar Planned Parenthood from Medicaid
AUSTIN, Texas - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday lifted a lower-court ban that prohibited Texas from eliminating Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program. The 5th U.S. Circu...
Jan 17, 2019
All Greek to him: Tsitsipas rides crowd support to 4th round
MELBOURNE, Australia - Stefanos Tsitsipas has reached the fourth round at the Australian Open, going where no Greek man has gone before at the majors but is still feeling right at home. The No. 14-see...
Jan 17, 2019
TSA absentee rate still high, but down from Sunday's peak
TSA officials say the rate of airport screeners missing work during the partial government shutdown has stabilized - but still at unusually high numbers - just before a three-day holiday weekend that ...
Jan 17, 2019
Federal ministers to meet family of Canadian woman missing in Burkina Faso
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will meet Friday with the family of Edith Blais, who went missing in Burkina Fa...
Jan 17, 2019
Minnesota mom charged after toddler tumble caught on video
MANKATO, Minn. - Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a woman whose 2-year-old child tumbled from the back seat of a moving vehicle while still strapped in a car seat. Forty-year-old Maimuna Hassan o...
Jan 17, 2019
Airports, customs, trade: Europe preps for a chaotic Brexit
PARIS - One by one, European Union nations are spending millions, hiring thousands of workers and issuing emergency decrees to cope with the increasingly likely possibility that Britain will leave the...
Jan 17, 2019
Former Canadian international Lars Hirschfeld joins FC Edmonton as goalie coach
EDMONTON - FC Edmonton has hired former Canadian international ‘keeper Lars Hirschfeld as its goalkeeping coach. The 40-year-old Hirschfeld, who won 48 caps for Canada from 2000 to 2013, joins a...
Jan 17, 2019
Keegan Messing: Winning a Canadian title would mean "the world to me"
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Keegan Messing posted a photo on social media last month of the winding Alaskan highway between his hometown of Girdwood and Anchorage that he’d travelled back and forth every...
Jan 17, 2019