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Canadian cyclist Mike Woods signs new contract, looks to add to win column
Canadian Mike Woods has signed a multi-year deal to stay with EF Education First Pro Cycling. Woods enjoyed a banner season last year, finishing second at the historic Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day rac...
Mar 14, 2019
QuickFacts: Boeing 737 Max 8 ban in Canada
MONTREAL - Facts and figures about the Boeing 737 Max 8 ban and how it affects Canadian passengers and airlines. - Passengers affected daily: About 12,000 (between 9,000 and 12,000 Air Canada passenge...
Mar 14, 2019
Parents charged in admissions scheme roll through US courts
LOS ANGELES - Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others pr...
Mar 14, 2019
Liberals must let Wilson-Raybould come back to committee, opposition says
OTTAWA - Opposition MPs plan to demand Wednesday that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould be allowed to return to the justice committee with no limitations on what she can say about...
Mar 14, 2019
Coaches and parents in college scheme find jobs in danger
LOS ANGELES - Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others pr...
Mar 14, 2019
Pinehouse Lake RCMP seize drugs, Taser device
Pinehouse Lake RCMP members made a large drug bust after a traffic stop on March 8.The investigation began after a traffic stop on an individual driving a quad. The man was issued a screening device t...
Mar 14, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Canadians Andreescu, Shapovalov notch upsets at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Canada's contingent of tennis teenagers is continuing to make waves in the California desert. Wild card Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., continued her dream run ...
Mar 14, 2019
US-Russian crew blasts off to International Space Station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Russian-American crew of three has blasted off to the International Space Station, making a second attempt to reach the outpost after October's aborted launch. A Russian Soyuz...
Mar 14, 2019
Criminal law at heart of SNC-Lavalin case rarely gets to a Canadian courtroom
OTTAWA - The criminal law at the heart of the SNC-Lavalin saga dogging the federal Liberals has led to charges in just seven cases in 20 years, leading some to call for a review of the legislatio...
Mar 14, 2019
Conversations beginning with Indigenous men and boys on cycle of abuse: Bennett
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the long-term effects of abuse suffered by people who attended Indian Day Schools is increasingly coming out in the open. On...
Mar 14, 2019
