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Scheer takes fight to Bernier, Greens and NDP go head to head on West Coast
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer returns to Quebec today, a province he just left, to campaign alongside the candidate hoping to knock People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier out of the House o...
Oct 18, 2019
Pick 'Em: No clear favourite on Canadian men's curling scene this season
The days of just one or two Canadian men's curling teams being clear favourites on the domestic scene are in the rear-view mirror. With the first Grand Slam of the new campaign to ...
Oct 18, 2019
Maple Leafs set to begin life without John Tavares against Bruins
TORONTO - Alexander Kerfoot was the man in the middle at Maple Leafs' practice on Friday. The centre took up the spot normally occupied by Toronto captain John Tavares, who is out at least two weeks w...
Oct 18, 2019
'Beyond appearance': Singh makes pitch to Quebec voters on shared values
HUDSON, Que. - Before the election campaign began, Jagmeet Singh turned a national spotlight onto his turban, a move aimed at facing head-on the unavoidable fact he is different fr...
Oct 18, 2019
Netflix releases Panama Papers movie despite lawsuit
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Netflix has released a movie based on the so-called Panama Papers despite an attempt by two lawyers to stop the streaming premiere. "The Laundromat," starring Gary Oldman, Antonio B...
Oct 18, 2019
Scheer claims a Liberal-NDP coalition government will hike the GST
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is demanding Liberals "have the guts" to explain what taxes will be raised to secure NDP support in a coalition government. Scheer is campaigning in Frederic...
Oct 18, 2019
‘A tough test’: Riders not taking Reilly-less Lions lightly
Even though the B.C. Lions can no longer qualify for the 2019 CFL playoffs and are without all-star quarterback Mike Reilly, the Saskatchewan Roughriders aren't taking them lightly."When you get a tea...
Oct 18, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Scheer takes campaign full circle, refocuses on Trudeau's ethical record
HAMILTON - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledged Wednesday to impose massive fines on politicians who break Canada's ethics laws as he took his campaign message back to its basic proposition:...
Oct 18, 2019
Film academy honours 16 Student Academy Award winners
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "I'd like to thank the academy" is a phrase many only ever get to say in front of their bathroom mirrors. But 16 student filmmakers actually got to utter those words on stage T...
Oct 18, 2019
Chicago teachers to strike in nation's 3rd largest district
Chicago parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for a massive teachers' strike set to begin Thursday, prompting the city to preemptively cancel classes in the nation's third-largest sch...
Oct 18, 2019