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Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Art Hughes, a West Coast scoring legend, dies at 88
VANCOUVER - Art Hughes, a Canada Soccer Hall of Famer who was one of the country's top goal-scorers through the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 88. The Canadian Soccer Association confirme...
Mar 05, 2019
Climate change chaos making politics more toxic: Obama tells Calgary crowd
CALGARY - Former United States president Barack Obama says failure to transition to cleaner energy sources would lead to global chaos that would be hard to reverse, but he's optimistic ...
Mar 05, 2019
Fleury gets second straight shutout, Vegas beats Canucks 3-0
LAS VEGAS - Gerard Gallant believes his Vegas Golden Knights are playing their best hockey of the season. After back-to-back shutouts, 15-year veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury certainly might be. ...
Mar 05, 2019
Holiday season defines winners and losers in retail
NEW YORK - The 2018 holiday season turned out to be a mixed bag for retailers, with some of them defying a gloomy government report in December that raised concerns that shoppers were hunkering down e...
Mar 05, 2019
Deadline nearing to file appeal of Bissonnette's sentence for mosque murders
QUEBEC - Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers have less than a week left to decide whether to appeal the sentence handed down to the gunman who killed six men in a Quebec City mosque. Alexa...
Mar 05, 2019
Ajax eliminates Madrid in round of 16 of Champions League
MADRID - Real Madrid's Champions League reign is over. Ajax stunned Madrid 4-1 at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Tuesday, eliminating the three-time defending champion 5-3 on aggregate in the round of 1...
Mar 05, 2019
Search continues for suspect after officers hit by car in Burnaby, B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. - One of two Vancouver-area police officers injured in a hit-and-run crash has been released from hospital, but RCMP say the second faces a long recovery. Burnab...
Mar 05, 2019
Pinehouse RCMP investigating suspicious death
Pinehouse RCMP are investigating a suspicious death after an incident Monday.At approximately 12:15 pm, members of the Pinehouse RCMP were called to a dispute at a residence in Pinehouse. Prior to the...
Mar 05, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Hello Kitty to make her big screen debut
NEW YORK - Hello Kitty might not have a mouth but she's got a movie deal. Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema announced Tuesday that it has acquired film rights to Hello Kitty from the Japanese corporation ...
Mar 05, 2019
Ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg won't run for president in 2020
Michael Bloomberg is not running for president. The 77-year-old former New York City mayor, one of the richest men in the world, announced his decision not to join the crowded Democratic field in a Bl...
Mar 05, 2019