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Slumping Maple Leafs looking to shore up leaky defensive play after rough week
TORONTO - Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock is convinced adversity can be a good thing. His team is dealing with plenty of it at the moment. Toronto has sprun...
Mar 18, 2019
Ontario appeal court overturns ruling of harassment against RCMP sergeant
TORONTO - Ontario's highest court has overturned a ruling that granted an RCMP sergeant more than $100,000 in damages for years of harassment by superiors, saying the judge made several legal and fact...
Mar 18, 2019
Tim McGraw, CeCe Winans to perform during NFL Draft
NASHVILLE - The stars of the gridiron will meet the stars of Music City when the NFL Draft comes to Nashville, Tennessee, in April. The NFL announced Monday that Grammy-winning country star Tim McGraw...
Mar 18, 2019
Police: Body in Minnesota appears to be missing 2-year-old
MILWAUKEE - A child's body found wrapped in a blanket along a Minnesota highway is believed to be that of a missing 2-year-old girl whose mom police have said was fatally shot by her former pimp, auth...
Mar 18, 2019
Tim McGraw, CeCe Winans to perform during NFL Draft
NASHVILLE - The stars of the gridiron will meet the stars of Music City when the NFL Draft comes to Nashville, Tennessee, in April. The NFL announced Monday that Grammy-winning country star Tim McGraw...
Mar 18, 2019
MUCC heading to third straight HOOPLA
For the third straight year, the Melfort Unit and Comprehensive Collegiate (MUCC) Senior A Girls basketball team will play in HOOPLA.The senior girls booked their ticket after they hosted regionals at...
Mar 18, 2019 The Melfort Unit and Comprehensive Collegiate Senior A Girls basketball team is heading to HOOPLA for the third consecutive year. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)
AP Source: Justice Dept. probing development of Boeing jets
WASHINGTON - U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing's 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday, the same day French aviation investigators concluded there were...
Mar 18, 2019
Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick to quit before election
OTTAWA - Michael Wernick - the country's top bureaucrat - is leaving his job, telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter that recent events show him there is no path for a "relationship o...
Mar 18, 2019 Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick at a defence department event in October 2018. (Michael Wernick/Twitter)
New Zealand shootings will prompt careful gun review in Canada, Goodale predicts
OTTAWA - The federal public-safety minister suggests the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand will spur parliamentarians to take a careful look at Canada's gun laws. Ralph Goodale s...
Mar 18, 2019
New Toronto FC goalkeeper Quentin Westberg ready to sample life in North America
TORONTO - After 15 years playing in France, Quentin Westberg wanted something new - professionally and personally. Born in France to an American father and French mother, the 32-year-old goalkeep...
Mar 18, 2019