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Curling Fashion: Colourful retro look is in at Canadian women's curling championship
Part retro, part modern, all with new colourful hooks and a dash of pizzazz. Uniforms are getting an update at the Canadian women's curling championship starting Friday in Calgary. The feel of the shi...
Feb 16, 2021
European Space Agency seeks diversity in new astronaut drive
PARIS - The European Space Agency is holding its first astronaut recruitment drive in 11 years and says greater diversity is one of the goals. The European equivalent of NASA is seeking to recruit mor...
Feb 16, 2021
Black franchise owner sues McDonald's, cites persistent bias
CLEVELAND - The Black owner of 14 McDonald's franchises says the company has shown more favourable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communit...
Feb 16, 2021
Black franchise owner sues McDonald's, cites persistent bias
CLEVELAND - The Black owner of 14 McDonald's franchises says the company has shown more favourable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communit...
Feb 16, 2021
Riot lawsuit just part of Trump's post-impeachment problems
NEW YORK - Acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month's U.S. Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a congressman Tuesday....
Feb 16, 2021
Biden heads to Wisconsin to rally support for virus relief
WASHINGTON - Leaving Donald Trump and his impeachment in the rearview mirror, Joe Biden is embarking on his first official trip as president to refocus Congress on coronavirus relief and to cement pub...
Feb 16, 2021
France passes anti-radicalism bill that worries Muslims
PARIS - Lawmakers in the French parliament's lower house on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs to safeguard France from radical...
Feb 16, 2021
Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows
Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a delay likely caused by climate change, a new study found. A new way of calculati...
Feb 16, 2021
Veteran jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva makes many shocking revelations in autobiography
The racetrack was always Eurico Rosa Da Silva's happy place. It's where he won over 2,200 career races - including two Queen's Plates - and seven times earned recognition as Canada's top jockey. But i...
Feb 16, 2021
Ottawa urged to grant permanent residency to wrongfully arrested Quebec man
MONTREAL - Ottawa is being urged to grant permanent residency to a Quebec man who was wrongfully arrested, charged with attempted murder of a police officer and detained for six days before being let ...
Feb 16, 2021
