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‘The Logan Effect:’ SI cover, documentary honour fallen Bronco
A month before the one-year anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Sports Illustrated is honouring one of the inspirational stories that came from the tragedy.The magazine's latest cover featu...
Mar 06, 2019 The Sports Illustrated cover that honours former Humboldt Bronco Logan Boulet who died in the team's bus crash. (Sports Illustrated/Twitter) : Glynn Brothen
Feds hope to break deadlock with new location for Afghan war memorial
OTTAWA - The federal government hopes it has finally locked down a new location for a promised national memorial for the war in Afghanistan, with a Veterans Affairs Canada source telling The Cana...
Mar 06, 2019
Second US judge calls citizenship question on census illegal
SAN FRANCISCO - A second federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census is illegal. Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco said ...
Mar 06, 2019
Spring runoff expected to be normal: Water Security Agency
As the mercury begins to creep up the positive side of the thermometer, it's time to consider spring runoff.The Water Security Agency (WSA) projected an average amount of runoff for the province. One ...
Mar 06, 2019 Spring runoff in Saskatchewan is expected to be normal, according to a spokesperson at the Water Security Agency. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Dissent among Dems over response to Omar's Israel remarks
WASHINGTON - A meeting of House Democrats turned contentious Wednesday as some new members who helped deliver the House majority confronted leaders over a resolution implicitly rebuking Rep. Ilhan Oma...
Mar 06, 2019
GM restructuring: Production ending at Ohio plant this week
TOLEDO, Ohio - General Motors will end production this week at the first of five North American plants it wants to close by early next year as part of a companywide restructuring. The last American-ma...
Mar 06, 2019
Prime Minister says Nova Scotia has lead on Northern Pulp effluent plans
CHARLOTTETOWN - Justin Trudeau says his government is concerned with plans by a pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia to dump treated effluent into the Northumberland Strait, but the prime ...
Mar 06, 2019
Dubas calls Marchand's tweet on Marner's next contract 'a master troll job'
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas says Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand's tweet about Toronto forward Mitch Marner's next contract was "a master troll job." Marchand res...
Mar 06, 2019
Federal funds to kick-start planning work on road to central Arctic tundra
TORONTO - Northern leaders are cheering a federal funding announcement for a long-awaited all-weather road into the heart of Canada's mineral-rich Arctic. "This is a significant first step,"...
Mar 06, 2019
Last Quebec schooner of its kind threatened after grounding in Cuba
MONTREAL - Cuban authorities have backed off a threat to seize the last surviving St. Lawrence River schooner, which ran aground on a beach in the Caribbean country on Jan. 27. But the dange...
Mar 06, 2019