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Saskatchewan loses to Northern Ontario after tense extra end
Saskatchewan could've used a little less roll and a little more rock Wednesday night.The team lost 4-3 in an extra end to Northern Ontario on the last night of the round-robin at the Scotties Tourname...
Feb 21, 2020 Saskatchewan third Stefanie Lawton calls on her sweepers during a game Sunday at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. (Andrew Klaver Photography/Curling Canada)

School bus draped with message targets UK's Prince Andrew
LONDON - A yellow school bus with a banner depicting the face of Britain's Prince Andrew drove past Buckingham Palace on Friday, urging him to testify in the investigation of the late sex offender Jef...
Feb 21, 2020

Diamond Princess evacuees arrive for quarantine in Canada
OTTAWA - A plane carrying 129 Canadians and their families who have spent weeks confined to cabins aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan landed on Canadian soil this morning. The for...
Feb 21, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern): 10:13 Police south of Montreal are patrolling an ongoing blockade ...
Feb 21, 2020

US home sales sales fell 1.3% in January
WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors said Fr...
Feb 21, 2020

Coronavirus fears similar to what Vancouver Olympic organizers faced with H1N1
Dr. Mike Wilkinson is well-versed in the threat of a pandemic ahead of an Olympic Games. With the opening of the Tokyo Olympics just over five months away, there is rising uncertainty d...
Feb 21, 2020

Hinchcliffe gets Indy 500 ride, 3 total races with Andretti
INDIANAPOLIS - Michael Andretti's driver lineup is locked and loaded for May. He already had two race winners, two of Indyar's rising stars and his own son, Marco, geared up. Now he's added 2016 India...
Feb 21, 2020

Lawyer for Quebec couple urges court to act against ultra-Orthodox schools
MONTREAL - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools operating north of Montreal are illegal and their religious curriculum for boys is so onerous the students have little time to study anything el...
Feb 21, 2020

Quebec protesters maintain rail blockade a day after court ordered it taken down
ST-LAMBERT, Que. - About two dozen protesters remain at a blockade south of Montreal in defiance of an injunction delivered Thursday ordering them to leave the site and stop disrupting rail traffic. P...
Feb 21, 2020

China’s top diplomat assures Southeast Asia on epidemic
VIENTIANE, Laos - China's top diplomat assured his Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday that the situation in a central Chinese province where the outbreak of a new virus began has "been brought ...
Feb 21, 2020

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