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Markets Right Now: Stocks plunge again, Dow sinks 464 points
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Another miserable day on Wall Street knocked 464 points off the Dow Jones Industrial average, bringing its losses s...
Dec 20, 2018
No improvement in condition of hospitalized boxer Adonis Stevenson
MONTREAL - There has been no improvement in Adonis Stevenson’s condition since doctors sedated him and placed him on mechanical ventilation after a Dec. 1 knockout loss, the boxer’s promot...
Dec 20, 2018
Canada Post declares its operations back to normal just days before Christmas
OTTAWA - Canada Post says its operations are back to normal across the country, less than four weeks after its striking employees were forced back to work by federal legislation. The Crown corporation...
Dec 20, 2018
Players turned coaches pleased with change in OHL culture over past decade
Eric Wellwood and Jeff Kyrzakos can’t believe the difference a decade has made in the Ontario Hockey League. Both played in the major junior league in the mid-2000s, when they say hazing and ver...
Dec 20, 2018
Sens players Borowiecki, Ceci disappointed by Ottawa downtown arena setback
OTTAWA - Mark Borowiecki hopes Ottawa will one day have a downtown arena. As an Ottawa native and a defenceman for the NHL’s Senators, he said a new facility in the city’s core would be a ...
Dec 20, 2018
B.C. voters reject switch to proportional representation for third time
VICTORIA - Voters in British Columbia have rejected a proposal to switch to a system of proportional representation to elect members of the legislature for a third time, prompting all three parties to...
Dec 20, 2018
Brazil Judge suspends Boeing-Embraer deal for second time
RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian judge has for the second time in a month stalled a US$5.26 billion deal between airplane manufacturers Boeing and Embraer. The temporary injunction issued Wednesday by Jud...
Dec 20, 2018
Ex-Senators executive pleads guilty to harassing driver
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Former Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee pleaded guilty Thursday to harassing a 19-year-old male hotel shuttle driver. The 57-year-old Lee entered the plea in Buffalo...
Dec 20, 2018
21-year-old sentenced as youth in aggravated sexual assault case
LETHBRIDGE – A 21-year-old man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and cutting a woman’s throat in 2015, has been sentenced. Because he was 17-years-old at the time he committed the o...
Dec 20, 2018
CHL takes holiday break with Prince Albert Raiders still holding No. 1 ranking
TORONTO - The Canadian Hockey League began its holiday break on Monday with half the season already in the books. Some teams have already played themselves out of contention and have started trading a...
Dec 20, 2018