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Carpenter High School curling teams gearing up for provincial championships this weekend
The Saskatchewan High School Athletics Association (SHSAA) Provincial Curling Championships are coming to Meadow Lake for the first time in four years. Kendra Paramchuk, organizer and vice principal a...
Mar 05, 2020 The Carpenter High School Boys' Curling Team. (Facebook/Carpenter High School)
Lush Cosmetics calls for end to Safe Third Country deal with U.S.
OTTAWA - Lush Cosmetics has launched a campaign calling on people to pressure the Canadian Parliament to back out of an agreement with the U.S. that governs refugee claims in both count...
Mar 05, 2020
Canada spearheading effort to better protect airborne passenger flights
WASHINGTON - Canada is spearheading what Transport Minister Marc Garneau hopes will become an international effort to protect civilian airliners around the world from being shot down over conflic...
Mar 05, 2020
Minassian admits to planning, carrying out Toronto van attack
TORONTO - A man who killed 10 people when he drove a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018 has admitted to planning and carrying out the attack, court heard Thursday. ...
Mar 05, 2020
Cdn university basketball championships forging new ground with joint event
OTTAWA - Canada's best university basketball players won't just be playing for pride and glory in their championship tournament in Ottawa this weekend. Organizers say they are playing a part in histor...
Mar 05, 2020
Newfoundland and Labrador's Gushue beats Nunavut's Higgs at Tim Hortons Brier
KINGSTON, Ont. - For years, Brad Gushue was saddled with the tag of being the best skip without a national men's curling title. That all changed in 2017 when he finally won the Tim Hortons Brier. His ...
Mar 05, 2020
Canadian Coles-Lyster part of UCI's investigation on sexual assault allegations
In the weeks and months after Maggie Coles-Lyster alleges she was sexually assaulted, the Canadian cyclist buried herself in her sport. The 21-year-old from Maple Ridge, B.C., was just 18 when she joi...
Mar 05, 2020
Death toll from Tennessee tornadoes climbs to at least 24
NASHVILLE - Rescuers searched through shattered Tennessee neighbourhoods for bodies Tuesday, less than a day after tornadoes ripped across Nashville and other parts of the state as families slept. At ...
Mar 05, 2020
OPEC calls for big production cut, but will Russia agree?
VIENNA - The OPEC oil cartel is calling for a deep production cut to keep crude prices from falling further as disruption to global business from the coronavirus slashes demand from air travel and ind...
Mar 05, 2020
China's virus slowdown offers hope for global containment
The slowdown in coronavirus cases out of China offers a sliver of hope that the global outbreak can be controlled, but whether that can happen anytime soon without drastic measures remains to be seen,...
Mar 05, 2020