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Canada's Sharpe, Karker take women's gold, silver in freestyle halfpipe
CALGARY - Cassie Sharpe made it look easy, but says it wasn't. The 26-year-old freestyle skier from Comox, B.C., won World Cup halfpipe gold in wind and snow Saturday night in Calgary. ...
Feb 17, 2019
Nuclear-waste bunker decision to likely to fall to next federal government
TORONTO - The much-delayed and politically fraught decision on a proposed multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste storage bunker near Lake Huron now appears certain to fall to Canada's next government....
Feb 17, 2019
Saskatchewan Roughriders re-sign all-star Canadian kicker Brett Lauther
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders added a free agent, kept one of their own and signed Canadian kicker Brett Lauther to a one-year extension through 2020 on Friday. Lauther, of...
Feb 17, 2019
Regina is already a King, but what about president?
NEW YORK - So, Regina King walked into a 99-cent store. And what'd she get? A prophecy on her life. No joke. King was shopping around - "sometimes people will say, 'You at the 99-cent store?' I like a...
Feb 17, 2019
21 Savage 'wasn't hiding' being British, feared deportation
ATLANTA - The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn't talk about his British citizenship before because he didn't want to get deported. The Grammy-nominated art...
Feb 17, 2019
'Black Panther' costume designer blazes trail to inspire
LOS ANGELES - Ruth E. Carter is a black woman blazing a trail as a costume designer in a film industry with not many who look like her. But through her upcoming career achievement award and Oscar nomi...
Feb 17, 2019
Sunday's Scoreboard
WHLBrandon 6, Prince Albert 3Moose Jaw 6, Regina 3Saskatoon 5, Lethbridge 2Calgary 5, Medicine Hat 3Vancouver 3, Kelowna 0Portland 2, Red Deer 0Victoria 5, Prince George 4 (SO)Seattle 4, Everett 1Tri-...
Feb 17, 2019
Canadians make harrowing trek to Haiti airport as Ottawa advises against travel
MONTREAL - An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti Friday to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says he feel lucky to be alive ...
Feb 17, 2019
Fire in slum kills 9 in southeastern Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A devastating blaze raced through a crammed slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, a fire official said. The fire brok...
Feb 17, 2019
Amazon's exit could scare off tech companies from New York
NEW YORK - Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine's Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens amid fierce opposition from politicians angry about nearly $3 billion in tax...
Feb 17, 2019
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