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Skinner scores four, Sabres snap losing skid with 5-3 win over struggling Canadiens
MONTREAL - Jeff Skinner had his first-ever four-goal performance and the Buffalo Sabres snapped a three-game winless streak with a 5-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens Sunday afternoon. Skinner also no...
Feb 13, 2022
La Loche mayor and others decrying convoy's use of Orange Shirt Day and Every Child Matters
Former Member of Parliament and current mayor of La Loche, Georgina Jolibois, is publicly condemning the actions of a prominent Freedom Convoy protester to make their own Orange Shirt Day.Pat King, a ...
Feb 13, 2022
Canada pulls troops out of Ukraine as worries of Russian invasion grow
OTTAWA - The military is moving troops out of Ukraine in one of the strongest signals yet that a Russian invasion is imminent. The Defence Department says soldiers who have been in Ukraine as part of ...
Feb 13, 2022
Canada’s Dubois adds second medal in short-track speed skating
Steven Dubois doubled his fun at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday.The 24-year-old short-track speed skater from Terrebonne, Que., won his second medal of the Games, claiming the bronze in the men...
Feb 13, 2022
Sister of missing Indigenous woman commits to year-long walk across Canada
The sister of missing Megan Gallagher is starting a journey of her own in honour of her sister.Lindsey Bishop is starting a walk across Canada on Feb. 18, 2022 from Victoria, B.C."I think that bringin...
Feb 13, 2022
Bayern Munich says Canadian star fullback Alphonso Davies is on road to recovery
MUNICH - Canadian star fullback Alphonso Davies is on the mend, according to Bayern Munich. The 21-year-old from Edmonton has been sidelined since early January due to symptoms of myocarditis, a heart...
Feb 13, 2022
Toronto Argonauts add another offensive weapon in speedster Brandon Banks
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts added another free-agent offensive weapon Sunday in former Tiger-Cat receiver Brandon (Speedy B) Banks. The 34-year-old Banks spent the last eight seasons in Hamilton, ...
Feb 13, 2022
Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime beats top-seeded Tsitsipas to win 1st title
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Felix Auger-Aliassime won his first career title at the ninth attempt, upsetting top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2 in the Rotterdam final on Sunday to deny his oppon...
Feb 13, 2022
Industry, provincial lobbying weaken proposed federal coal effluent rules: critics
EDMONTON - The federal government has bowed to provincial and industry lobbying in weakening proposed standards for coal mining effluent, critics say. The draft regulations, released earlier this year...
Feb 13, 2022
'We were right there': Guardians in Fort Good Hope step in when no one else can
Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi was the first person to get a call when a family of six disappeared on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories while travelling by boat to a funeral last summer. Edgi-Masu...
Feb 13, 2022