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'The chill is real,' Canada's ambassador to China says of fraught relationship
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says there is a chill in relations between the two countries since the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority is winning their release a...
Feb 05, 2020
Northern ice roads begin opening to light traffic
Ice roads from Stony Rapids to Fond du Lac and Uranium City opened today to light traffic. That's according to Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure spokesperson David Horth, who said traffic is cur...
Feb 05, 2020 Ice roads are opening about one week earlier compared to 2019. (Facebook)
Not Guilty: Split Senate acquits Trump of impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the cou...
Feb 05, 2020 In this image from video, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts arrives for the vote in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 5, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
2 women killed, child hurt in shooting at Texas dormitory
COMMERCE, Texas - Two women were killed and a child was wounded in a shooting Monday morning at a university dormitory in Texas, officials said. A recommendation for students and employees to shelter ...
Feb 05, 2020
Star Canadian canoeist says her return to team training is like coming back home
Laurence Vincent Lapointe credits a "weird little flame" inside her for helping her stay strong when it looked like her Olympic dreams would be dashed. The star Canadian canoeist faced a fou...
Feb 05, 2020
Canadian Golf Hall of Famer Stephen Ames adapting on the Champions Tour
Stephen Ames is learning how to adapt on the Champions Tour. The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member finished second at last weekend's Morocco Champions, rocketing to fourth on the Charles Schwab Cup st...
Feb 05, 2020
Suicide crisis, alcohol hours topics at annual provincial convention
La Ronge Counc. Jordan McPhail believes a response to a question he asked Minister of Health Jim Reiter about the lack of a provincial suicide strategy was "woefully inadequate."During the bear pit se...
Feb 05, 2020 The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association has rebranded itself as Municipalities of Saskatchewan. (SUMA/Twitter)
Bloc Quebecois MP among new faces on national security committee
OTTAWA - The new crop of parliamentarians overseeing the security-and-intelligence community includes the first Bloc Quebecois MP to sit on the committee. The Prime Minister's Office says Bloc MP Chri...
Feb 05, 2020
Yankees lefty James Paxton has back surgery, out 3-4 months
NEW YORK - Yankees left-hander James Paxton had back surgery Wednesday and is expected to be sidelined until May or June. New York said Dr. Andrew Dossett in Dallas performed a microscopic lumbar disc...
Feb 05, 2020
Source: Toronto FC close to signing designated player as Piatti undergoes medical
Toronto FC appears to have found its new designated player in Argentine winger/forward Pablo Piatti. A source, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the subject, said the...
Feb 05, 2020