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Winter storm expected to last until Monday morning: Environment Canada
Roads update as of 10 p.m.Highways 376, 378, and 324 northwest of North Battleford remain closed. Winter driving conditions are present among highways around Prince Albert, Meadow Lake, La Ronge, and ...
Mar 03, 2024
Montreal winter second-warmest on record, Environment Canada says
MONTREAL - Environment Canada says the 2023-2024 winter season in Montreal was the second-warmest since record-keeping began in 1871. Meteorologist Gregory Yang says the mean temperatures for December...
Mar 03, 2024
Canada's Zsombor-Murray, Wiens place fifth in 10-metre synchro at diving World Cup
MONTREAL - Paris Olympics-bound Canadians Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens placed fifth in the men's 10-metre synchronized competition Sunday at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup. Zsombor-Murra...
Mar 03, 2024
Alberta's Bottcher remains unbeaten at Brier with win over Scoffin
REGINA - Alberta's Brendan Bottcher improved to 2-0 at the Canadian men's curling championship with an 8-3 win over Yukon's Thomas Scoffin on Sunday morning. Scoffin made it a 2-2 game in the fourth e...
Mar 03, 2024
A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the ...
Mar 03, 2024
Canada's Grondin earns second silver of weekend in World Cup snowboard cross
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain - Canada's Eliot Grondin has won his second silver medal in as many days in World Cup men's snowboard cross action. The Sainte-Marie, Que., native is now up to seven World Cup med...
Mar 03, 2024
McEwen’s Saskatchewan rink defeats Team Canada at 2024 Brier
Mike McEwen outdueled Brad Gushue as Saskatchewan knocked off the defending Canadian champions 7-6 on Saturday at the Montana's Brier.McEwen, who was good on 89 per cent of his shots, stole points in ...
Mar 03, 2024
Inaccurate data on forest fuels may stoke B.C. wildfires, study finds
VANCOUVER - Wildfire fighting and forest management decisions are potentially being hampered by inaccurate government data that misrepresents forest fuel loads in British Columbia's Interior, a new st...
Mar 03, 2024
Long time between Briers, Newfoundland and Labrador lead back in it 35 years later
REGINA - Alex Smith is back in the Canadian men's curling championship 35 years after his last appearance in Saskatoon in 1989. Newfoundland and Labrador's lead at the Montana's Brier in Regina was a ...
Mar 03, 2024
Lawmakers elect Shehbaz Sharif as Pakistan's new premier. Protests in parliament greet appointment
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Sunday Shehbaz Sharif as the country's new prime minister for the second time as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in pa...
Mar 03, 2024