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Vlhova denies Holdener 1st WCup slalom win; Shiffrin DNF'd
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) - Petra Vlhova cemented her status as the leading female slalom skier of the season with her fifth win from six races on Sunday with just a month to go before the Olympic ...
Jan 9, 2022
Efforts to establish First Nation school board in Yukon decades in the making
VANCOUVER - Parents at eight schools in Yukon are voting on a proposal that could put the control of education for their children in the hands of the territory's Indigenous bands, the result of an eff...
Jan 9, 2022
Will he stay or will he go? Djokovic's hearing looms large
After four nights in an Australian immigration detention hotel, Novak Djokovic will get his day in court Monday in a deportation case that has polarized opinions and elicited heartfelt support for the...
Jan 9, 2022
First Nation says Alberta is preventing it from taking control of child welfare
A First Nation in Alberta says it's been nearly three months since it was supposed to take legal control of its own child welfare but the provincial government won't recognize the arrangement made pos...
Jan 9, 2022
Survey finds oilsands environmental monitoring ineffective after 10 years
EDMONTON - Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents ...
Jan 9, 2022
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will seek reelection
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters, said Sunday that he will seek reelection, avoiding a wide open GOP pri...
Jan 9, 2022
Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1
WASHINGTON (AP) - In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions. He bristled at a query abou...
Jan 9, 2022
Arizona's auto aspirations make for unlikely ally in Canada's EV tax-credit fight
WASHINGTON - From its arid desert climate to its mercurial, centre-right politics, the southern border state of Arizona hardly seems to have much in common with Canada beyond winter-wary snowbirds. Bu...
Jan 9, 2022
Kazakhstan says 164 killed in week of protests
MOSCOW (AP) - Kazakhstan's health ministry says 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week. The figures reported Sunday on the state news channel Khabar-24...
Jan 9, 2022
Maple Leaf rules: Canada wins ATP Cup with win over Spain
SYDNEY (AP) - Felix Auger-Aliassime clinched the ATP Cup title for Canada on Sunday with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 singles victory over Roberto Bautista Agut to give his country an insurmountable 2-0 lead agains...
Jan 9, 2022
