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Friends, family say goodbye to 4-year-old girl found dead in conservation area
TORONTO - Several hundred mourners have gathered at a Toronto funeral home to celebrate the life of a four-year-old who died at a conservation area. Keira Kagan's family remembers her as a smart, witt...
Feb 13, 2020

Ex-Hasidic man educated in religious school had never heard of science, trial told
MONTREAL - A former member of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish group north of Montreal has told a courtroom that he graduated from an unlicensed religious school without ever hearing&nb...
Feb 13, 2020

Pipeline protests hit B.C. legislature and Canada's rail network
VICTORIA - Hundreds of protesters blocked the entrances to the British Columbia legislature on Tuesday as demonstrations in support of Indigenous hereditary chiefs who oppose a pipeline project contin...
Feb 13, 2020

Nurse, Bjorkgren together at all-star; latest accomplishment in long friendship
TORONTO - Nick Nurse remembers Nate Bjorkgren as a good-looking kid with a "full head of hair, and not a bad player" when Bjorkgren walked onto the University of South Dakota's bas...
Feb 13, 2020

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid out 2 to 3 weeks with quad injury
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers say star centre Connor McDavid will be out for the next two to three weeks with a quad injury, a setback expected to test the resilience of a team fi...
Feb 13, 2020

Canadian Premier League unveils new Atletico Ottawa club with Mista as coach
OTTAWA - Jeff Hunt believes Ottawa finally has the right recipe for pro soccer success with Club Atletico de Madrid on board. Hunt, also a part-owner of the CFL's Ottawa Redblacks and Ontario Hockey L...
Feb 13, 2020

US woman wanted for husband's 2002 death arrested in Rome
ROME - An American woman wanted in the 2002 death of her husband, whose remains were so badly burned they weren't identified for more than a decade, was arrested in Rome after a multinational search, ...
Feb 13, 2020

Conservatives press Trudeau on alleged Chinese role in hack of Canadian data
OTTAWA - The Conservatives want to know what federal officials are doing about China's alleged involvement in stealing data from thousands of Canadians. In a letter to Prime M...
Feb 13, 2020

Quebec knew about illegal Hasidic religious schools for decades, trial hears
MONTREAL - The Quebec government knew for decades that children in a Hasidic Jewish community north of Montreal were not receiving a legal secular education, a witness said Monday&...
Feb 13, 2020

Trump, first lady to host state dinner in April for Spain
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host the administration's third state dinner in April, for King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, the White House announced Tu...
Feb 13, 2020

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