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Canadian firefighters expect to use tailored tactics to battle Australia blazes
HALIFAX - As Canadian firefighters boarded flights today to battle blazes in Australia, they noted they will likely have to employ some different tactics than they do to fight loca...
Jan 15, 2020
Raider duo ready for spotlight
The Prince Albert Raiders will be well-represented at tomorrow's Kubota CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Hamilton, Ont.Defenceman Kaiden Guhle will be suiting up for Team White, while forward Ozzy Wiesbl...
Jan 15, 2020 Raider forward Ozzy Wiesblatt (back) and defenceman Kaiden Guhle are off to Hamilton, ON to take part in Thursday's CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. (Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff)
New book of Zora Neale Hurston stories is out this week
NEW YORK - Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told. The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so ...
Jan 15, 2020
Sudan reopens airspace after end of armed mutiny, 2 killed
CAIRO - Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down the capital's airport for hours and left at least two people dead. In a press conf...
Jan 15, 2020
Students to sing national anthem in Ojibwa at Winnipeg Jets hockey game
WINNIPEG - The national anthem before this Friday's NHL game in Winnipeg won't quite sound the way it usually does. A group of students from the city's Riverbend Community School are set to perfo...
Jan 15, 2020
Cold weather doesn't stop Birch Hills man from trying to land the big one
There's not a lot that can keep Andy Winder off the lake.While the average angler would hesitate to venture out once the thermometer drops, the avid sportsman from Birch Hills never lets cold temperat...
Jan 15, 2020 Birch Hills' Andy Winder posing with his two daughters and a Northern Pike. (Submitted Photo/ Andy Winder)
Rep. Kirkpatrick of Arizona seeking treatment for alcoholism
PHOENIX - U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona said Wednesday that she's taking time off from her congressional duties to seek treatment for alcohol dependence after a "serious" fall. Kirkpatrick, a D...
Jan 15, 2020
Feds working on new policies to stop illegal shipments of garbage
OTTAWA - The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from illegally ending up on foreign shores, after needing to bring dozens of shipping containers of rott...
Jan 15, 2020
Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Greens to sit as Independent, cites family health
VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader says in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislature member ...
Jan 15, 2020
Bolts G Vasilevskiy, Rangers D DeAngelo, Flames G Talbot named 3 stars of week
NEW YORK - Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, New York Rangers defenceman Tony DeAngelo and Calgary goaltender Cam Talbot are the NHL's three stars of the week. Vasilevskiy won three games...
Jan 15, 2020
