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Moura sends Tottenham through to Champions League final
AMSTERDAM - Lucas Moura completed a hat trick in the sixth minute of injury time as Tottenham pulled off another stunning Champions League comeback on Wednesday, beating Ajax 3-2 to set up an all-Engl...
May 08, 2019
Annual McHappy Day supports local families
Today marks the 26th annual McHappy Day across the country. For every Big Mac, Happy Meal, or hot McCafe beverage sold, the charity will receive $1. Since the first McHappy Day was held in 1977, over ...
May 08, 2019 Customers line up at the Second Ave. W McDonald's restaurant to support McHappy Day, which ends at midnight. (Emily Zbaraschuk/paNOW)
British Columbia's Archie Windsor laughs about royal baby name link
DUNCAN, B.C. - At first, Archie Windsor of Duncan, B.C., says he was shocked to learn he had the same last name as the newest royal, but then he saw the humour. "My father worked in the woods all his ...
May 08, 2019
Sask. police collect 283 firearms during gun amnesty
Police services across Saskatchewan plan to hold another province-wide gun amnesty next year even though numbers are declining.Regina took the lead, launching its first gun amnesty program in 2017 and...
May 08, 2019 Firearms collected during a gun amnesty on display at the Regina police headquarters on May 8, 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Vigneault takes the wheel for Canada at men's world hockey championship
Alain Vigneault is back coaching in a big way after a winter of unemployment. Vigneault is not only Canada's head coach at the men's world hockey championship starting Friday in Sl...
May 08, 2019
Trump administration seeks to target nationwide injunctions
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence will announce Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to challenge the right of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions. He'll make the a...
May 08, 2019
Ice Cube, others mourn director Singleton at private funeral
LOS ANGELES - Family, friends and dignitaries including Ice Cube, Stevie Wonder and Congresswoman Maxine Waters were among those mourning director John Singleton at his Los Angeles funeral on Monday. ...
May 08, 2019
Coffee cup in 'Game of Thrones' scene perks up viewers
LOS ANGELES - "Game of Thrones" fans got a taste of the modern world when eagle-eyed viewers spotted a takeout coffee cup on the table during a celebration in which the actors drank from goblets and h...
May 08, 2019
P.A. Mayor makes 'sweater bet' with Mayor of Vancouver
There is now a bit more riding on the outcome of the Western Hockey League's (WHL) final between the Prince Albert Raiders and Vancouver Giants.Prince Albert Mayor Greg Dionne made a friendly bet with...
May 08, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Scoring first has been key so far in the WHL final series
Whoever scored the first goal so far in the 2019 Rogers WHL Championship Series has won the game. Giants defenceman Dylan Plouffe drew first blood in Game 1, scoring 4:20 into the first period. The Gi...
May 08, 2019 Raiders forward Parker Kelly scored 41 seconds into Game 3, the start of a huge seven-goal snowball for the Raiders. Submitted photo, Rik Fedyck.
