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Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay announces Tory leadership bid
STELLARTON, N.S. - After a more than four-year hiatus from politics, former cabinet minister Peter MacKay officially launched his bid to capture the leadership of the federal Conservative party before...
Jan 27, 2020
NAFTA, gun bill Liberal priorities as House of Commons gets back to work
OTTAWA - The work begins in earnest today for the Liberal minority government as the House of Commons opens for business after a lengthy winter break. The first piece of major legislat...
Jan 27, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader to meet Trudeau as part of international tour
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits down today with Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido. The head of the South American nation's congress is on an international tour to bolster support for...
Jan 27, 2020
Music stars pay tribute to Kobe Bryant at Grammys award show
LOS ANGELES - From the red carpet to the main stage, sadness loomed over music's biggest night Sunday at the arena in downtown Los Angeles where Kobe Bryant played for 20 years for the city's NBA team...
Jan 27, 2020
Music stars pay tribute to Kobe Bryant at Grammys award show
LOS ANGELES - From the red carpet to the main stage, sadness loomed over music's biggest night Sunday at the arena in downtown Los Angeles where Kobe Bryant played for 20 years for the city's NBA team...
Jan 27, 2020
Lowry, Siakam lead Raptors past Knicks for 6th straight win
NEW YORK - On "Star Wars" night at Madison Square Garden, the Toronto Raptors showed why they remain a galaxy far, far away from the New York Knicks. With All-Star players and big-game experience, the...
Jan 26, 2020
Women once again take centre stage at NHL all-star skills competition
ST. LOUIS - On a night where pucks rocketed from the stands, hockey's best player was dethroned as its fastest skater and a hulking defenceman regained the hardest shot crown, wome...
Jan 26, 2020
Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus
BEIJING - China's leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak's epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to contain an illn...
Jan 26, 2020
China counts 2,700 cases of new virus, 80 deaths
BEIJING - The death toll from a new virus has risen to 80 with more than 2,700 confirmed cases, China's government said Monday, after the health minister warned that the virus's ability to "spread is ...
Jan 26, 2020
Woods stunned to learn of Kobe Bryant's death
SAN DIEGO - Tiger Woods has heard just about everything from playing before the biggest crowds in golf, and he tends to ignore it. Most puzzling was what he kept hearing along the back nine Sunday at ...
Jan 26, 2020
