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Toronto school board voting on whether to cancel classes on day of solar eclipse
TORONTO - Canada's largest school board is voting Wednesday on whether it should revise its school calendar so students can stay home on the day a rare solar eclipse will chart a course through parts ...
Jan 31, 2024
Inquiry releasing report today on Afghanistan vet who killed his family and himself
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - Seven years after a former Canadian soldier fatally shot three family members and himself in rural Nova Scotia, a provincial inquiry is scheduled to release today a final repor...
Jan 31, 2024
'Muscling': Alberta government won't stock B.C. wines that sell direct to consumers
EDMONTON - An interprovincial wine war is fermenting after Alberta's liquor wholesaler told vintners in British Columbia that it won't stock their products in retail stores unless they stop shipping i...
Jan 31, 2024
NBA roundup: Jayson Tatum scores 30 as Celtics beat Pacers 129-124
BOSTON (AP) - Jayson Tatum scored 30 points and had two blocks in the final 30 seconds to help the Boston Celtics hold off the Indiana Pacers 129-124 on Tuesday night. Jaylen Brown added 25 points and...
Jan 30, 2024
NHL roundup: Merzlikins stops 21 shots, Blue Jackets blank hot Blues 1-0
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Dmitri Voronkov scored early in the third period and the Columbus Blue Jackets snapped the St. Louis Blues' season-high five-game winning streak with a 1-0 National Hockey League vict...
Jan 30, 2024
House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issue
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a "willful and systematic" refusal to ...
Jan 30, 2024
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 14-year prison sentence in third conviction
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another spe...
Jan 30, 2024
Raptors snap five-game skid with 118-107 win over Bulls
CHICAGO (AP) - Gary Trent Jr. scored 24, Bruce Brown added 19 points and seven rebounds and the Toronto Raptors snapped a season-high five-game losing streak with a 118-107 win over the Chicago Bulls ...
Jan 30, 2024
Criminal Code applies on ice, says B.C. minister after apparent chokehold during game
British Columbia's health minister has weighed in on hockey violence, saying the Criminal Code applies both on and off the ice, after an incident in which a player appeared to put a goalie in a chokeh...
Jan 30, 2024
Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate, has died at 90
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri after she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, died Tuesday. S...
Jan 30, 2024
