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Scots reshuffle lineup in women's world curling because of COVID-19
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Scotland called in another player ahead of its Saturday opener at the women's world curling championship because the skip and alternate have tested positive for COVID-19. Beth Fa...
Mar 19, 2022
Montreal heads toward the weekend with violent Friday night, three attempted murders
Montreal police say they are investigating three separate attempted murders that happened at almost the same time late Friday night. Sgt. Raphal Bergeron, a Montreal police spokesman, says a 19-year o...
Mar 19, 2022
Slokar a surprise winner in World Cup slalom; Canada's Nullmeyer sixth
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin already got the overall World Cup title. Petra Vlhov had the Olympic and World Cup titles in slalom. Maybe that left space for a surprise Saturday. Andreja Slok...
Mar 19, 2022
World Cup champion Marco Odermatt wins again in giant slalom
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Marco Odermatt finished his standout World Cup ski season on top yet again Saturday. The new World Cup overall champion retained his first-run lead in a giant slalom to win in h...
Mar 19, 2022
Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: All’s quiet on the TMX front; maybe a little too quiet
ALL IS QUIET on the Trans Mountain front, at least on the section that runs through the North Thompson Valley including Black Pines. Maybe a little too quiet.A year ago, contractors were getting geare...
Mar 19, 2022
4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine
HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...
Mar 19, 2022
Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...
Mar 19, 2022
Thompson scores in OT as Sabres beat Flames 1-0
CALGARY - Tage Thompson scored the overtime winner and Dustin Tokarski made 24 saves as the Buffalo Sabres won 1-0 Friday night over the Calgary Flames. Buffalo (21-33-8) has split the first two games...
Mar 18, 2022
China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year
BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...
Mar 18, 2022
