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NHLers weigh in on QMJHL fighting debate: 'The game's changing'
A veteran of nearly 130 career fights, Kyle Clifford can see a day when dropping the gloves in the NHL has serious repercussions beyond a five-minute penalty. Just not any time soon. "It'd be a w...
Feb 21, 2020
Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville claims Tournament of Hearts playoff berth
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville secured the fourth and final playoff spot at the Canadian women's curling championship Friday. McCarville defeated Prince Edward Island 6-5 ...
Feb 21, 2020
Armani rails against baring trends by fellow designers
MILAN - How much to show and how much not to show, that is the fashion question this season. It may be reductive to say that runway shows are about how women dress. But the conversation has sharpened ...
Feb 21, 2020
Parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme
BOSTON - A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty Friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Su...
Feb 21, 2020
Bloomberg says 3 women can be released from NDAs
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly abo...
Feb 21, 2020
New presidential elections key to solving Venezuelan crisis: Colombian envoy
OTTAWA - Fleeing Venezuelans - all 1.4 million of them - will always be welcome in his country, says Colombia's ambassador to Canada, but his real hope is that they are able to one day retur...
Feb 21, 2020
Trudeau says time for blockades to come down
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says after two weeks, the barricades on rail lines and other major transportation routes have to come down. Speaking in Ottawa, he says the situation is unaccept...
Feb 21, 2020 Protestors took to rail tracks on Neskonlith land east of Kamloops Feb. 20 to stand in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en First Nation. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Attempted theft of seaplane ends with collision in Vancouver harbour
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are investigating after a float plane was badly damaged in what appears to have been a botched theft. Const. Tanya Visintin says officers were called to the c...
Feb 21, 2020
Attempted theft of seaplane ends with collision in Vancouver harbour
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are investigating after a float plane was badly damaged in what appears to have been a botched theft. Const. Tanya Visintin says officers were called to the c...
Feb 21, 2020
Raposo fashioned her love of boxing into career as rare female ring announcer
TORONTO - Yvette Raposo believes boxing is the perfect blend of beauty and brutality. "The beauty we see, for those of us in boxing, is its art form - the strategy, the dancing, the footwork, the exch...
Feb 21, 2020
