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Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli confident team is heading in 'right direction'
Connor McDavid was nine when the Edmonton Oilers last qualified for the playoffs. Indeed, it’s been a long decade of futility in the Alberta capital. But as training camp opens this week, there ...
Sep 21, 2016
B.C. coroner warns against complacency in wake of encouraging overdose stats
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is bombarding the province with thousands of overdose-reversing naloxone kits as part of an all-out assault against a drug crisis that has killed 488 people so far this ye...
Sep 21, 2016
Interim Viacom CEO to leave, dividend slashed
NEW YORK - Viacom says interim CEO Tom Dooley will leave Nov. 15 and the company is cutting its dividend in half in the first major moves from the company since longtime CEO Philippe Dauman left in Au...
Sep 21, 2016
Suspect being sought after deaths of two people in Calgary shooting
CALGARY - A man and his common-law wife are dead after what police believe was a targeted, gang-related shooting in Calgary. Investigators say officers found the body of the 38-year-old man in the fro...
Sep 21, 2016
Experts say Quebec pythons on the lam won't survive dip in temperatures
MONTREAL - Two pythons on the lam in Quebec are in a race against Mother Nature as temperatures begin to dip in the coming weeks. One expert says it’s already pretty cold for the two fugitives a...
Sep 21, 2016
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi rejects city's 2024 Olympic bid
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi rejected the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, effectively dooming the capital’s candidacy for the second time in four years. If approved by RomeR...
Sep 21, 2016
'No going back': Tory MP Jason Kenney tweets his resignation letter
OTTAWA – Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney is officially stepping down as an MP this week. Kenney tweeted a photo of his resignation letter, dated Tuesday, to Speaker Geoff Regan, in which he sa...
Sep 21, 2016
Tinder matches with Spotify to add music to dating app
NEW YORK - Spotify is getting together with Tinder to allow users of the dating app to find musical matches. The streaming music service says Tinder users can now share a personal anthem on their prof...
Sep 21, 2016
All Prince Edward Island schools evacuated over potential threat
CHARLOTTETOWN - Traffic slowed to a crawl and offices emptied across Prince Edward Island Wednesday as parents raced to collect their kids in the wake of province-wide school evacuations triggered by ...
Sep 21, 2016
Racial issues involving Somalis heightened after mall attack
MINNEAPOLIS - The day after a young Somali-American man stabbed 10 people at a central Minnesota mall, pickup trucks were spotted driving through predominantly Somali neighbourhoods, honking and wavin...
Sep 21, 2016