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TSN, Curling Canada agree to eight-year extension on broadcast rights contract
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Curling Canada and TSN have extended their broadcast rights contract for another eight years. The agreement kicks in for the 2020-21 season through to 2027-28. The announcement was ...
Feb 22, 2020
Canada wins opener against El Salvador at CONCACAF U-20 Championship
SAN CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic - Second-half goals by captain Tanya Boychuk and Kaila Novak lifted Canada to a 2-0 win over El Salvador in its opening match Saturday at the CONCACAF Women...
Feb 22, 2020
Ontario's Homan advances to Hearts semifinal with 9-5 win over Northern Ontario.
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Ontario's Rachel Homan advanced to the semifinal of the Canadian women's curling championship with a 9-5 win over Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville on Saturday. Homan&n...
Feb 22, 2020
Laughton scores twice, leads streaking Flyers over Jets 4-2
PHILADELPHIA - Scott Laughton scored two goals Saturday to lead the streaking Philadelphia Flyers to an 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. Sean Couturier and Tyler Pitlick also scored and Justin Brau...
Feb 22, 2020
Government needs to produce plan for dealing with veterans' backlog: Ombudsman
OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is urging the federal government to explain clearly how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to ...
Feb 22, 2020
Capitals' Alex Ovechkin becomes 8th player with 700 goals
NEWARK, N.J. - Alex Ovechkin has become the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals. The Washington Capitals star reached the milestone 4:50 into the third period against the New Jersey Devils...
Feb 22, 2020
Freeland agrees to NDP trade pitch in return for new NAFTA support: letter
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada's trade negotiations more "transparent," by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of ...
Feb 22, 2020
Official says she would have denied Desmond a gun licence had she known more
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier fatally shot three family members and himself heard Thursday from a firearms official who said ...
Feb 22, 2020
Unreleased report finds stop checks, searches of protesters unlawful: Watchdog
VANCOUVER - A civilian police watchdog has released a letter that was described Thursday as "explosive" by a supporter of hereditary chiefs opposed to a pipeline in northern British Columbia...
Feb 22, 2020
Thumbprint, hairbrush: Franklin wreck reveals sailors' lives
It was as if the past literally reached out and touched him. Parks Canada archaeologist Marc-Andre Bernier spent last summer diving into the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of the Franklin exped...
Feb 22, 2020