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Five-year-old polar bear showing signs of illness dies at Winnipeg zoo
WINNIPEG - A polar bear has died at the zoo in Winnipeg. Assiniboine Park Zoo says the five-year-old bruin named Blizzard died Monday. The bear had been showing signs of illness over the last two...
Jan 29, 2019
Murder trial hears of lover's panicked attempts to reach Richard Oland
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The woman Richard Oland was having an extramarital affair with has described the anger and then the panic she felt as she tried in vain to reach her multimillionaire lover in the ho...
Jan 29, 2019
Infamy, zeal for carnage inspired Vegas shooter
LAS VEGAS - A high-stakes gambler who rained down a hail of gunfire, killing 58 people from his high-rise casino suite in Las Vegas wanted infamy and mass destruction, the FBI told the Associated Pres...
Jan 29, 2019
Defence chief scheduled to testify in Vice-Admiral Mark Norman pre-trial today
OTTAWA - Canada's top military officer, Gen. Jonathan Vance, is slated to take the witness stand today as a pre-trial hearing resumes for his former second-in-command, suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norm...
Jan 29, 2019
Timeline in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur
TORONTO - A timeline of key events in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur based on information released by police: September 2010 _ Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappears f...
Jan 29, 2019
Canada downs Panama 5-1 in Pan Am Games baseball qualifying opener
IBIUNA, Brazil - Wes Darvil homered to tie the game and Daniel Pinero scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch as Canada opened the Pan American Games baseball qualifying tournament with a 5-1 win...
Jan 29, 2019
Brothers edges Arsenault to secure host province berth at Scotties playdowns
Jennifer Jones already has her Scotties ticket. Rachel Homan will be in Sydney too. Now you can lock in big names like Chelsea Carey, Tracy Fleury and Kerri Einarson for the national ch...
Jan 29, 2019
Swimmer Benoit Huot announces retirement, won 20 Paralympic medals over career
Canadian swimmer Benoit Huot earned a boatload of medals over a two-decade career that included podium appearances at five straight Paralympic Games and at countless international meets. Reminisc...
Jan 29, 2019
Atlanta braced for wintry weather, gets spritzed by rain
Atlanta got a mere spritzing of rain Tuesday, hours after a winter weather forecast prompted authorities to close government offices, shutter schools and cancel flights in anticipation of icy streets....
Jan 29, 2019
Vote first on USMCA to spark action in U.S., former USTR urges Canada, Mexico
WASHINGTON - A former U.S. trade ambassador is urging Canada and Mexico to vote to approve their new North American trade pact with the United States, hoping to spur action on...
Jan 29, 2019
