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Seniors Old Time Dance
The Meadow Lake Senior's Activity Centre will have an Old Time Dance on Friday, January 10 from 8 untill 11:00 p.m. at the Activity Centre.Admission at the door is $10.Refreshments are available.Every...
Jan 07, 2020

Legal group seeks federal inquiry into Mississippi prisons
Prisoner advocates are calling on the federal government to investigate Mississippi's prison system for possible civil rights violations, saying the violence of recent days highlights deliberate viola...
Jan 07, 2020

Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov down Germany in doubles to clinch 2-1 win at ATP Cup
BRISBANE, Australia - Canada's Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies 6-3, 7-6 (4) in doubles action on Tuesday to clinch a 2-1 victory over Germ...
Jan 07, 2020

Trump disregards Canada, allies with killing of Iranian general: ex-ambassador
OTTAWA - Barack Obama's former ambassador to Canada says President Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of a top Iranian general represents the latest instance of the mercurial U.S. president ...
Jan 07, 2020

Germany moves 35 soldiers from Iraq to Jordan, Kuwait
BERLIN - Germany moved 35 soldiers serving in Iraq to neighbouring Jordan and Kuwait on Tuesday amid tensions over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in an airstrike in Baghdad last week. The k...
Jan 07, 2020

UK woman in Cyprus gang rape case gets suspended sentence
PARALIMNI, Cyprus - A Cyprus court on Tuesday handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who was found guilty of public mischief after authorities said she made up claims th...
Jan 07, 2020

Drunken driver in Italy plows into German tourists, kills 6
ROME - A drunken driver speeding on a mountain road plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing six people and injuring 11 others, Italian authorities said. Th...
Jan 07, 2020

Maple Leaf cake gets iced and a world junior redux; In The News for Jan. 7
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 7: What we are watching in...
Jan 07, 2020

Death of Iran general spurs anxiety over fate of US hostages
WASHINGTON - The killing of a top Iranian general has ratcheted up the anxiety of families of Americans held in Iran, one month after the release of a New Jersey student had given them hope. The Trump...
Jan 07, 2020

Iran Guard leader threatens to 'set ablaze' US-backed areas
TEHRAN, Iran - The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last w...
Jan 07, 2020