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Canadiens forward Matthew Peca out around six weeks with knee injury
Montreal Canadiens forward Matthew Peca will be out for approximately six weeks with a knee injury, the NHL team announced Thursday. Peca suffered the injury during the game in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. ...
Dec 12, 2019
Fullback Ashley Lawrence named Canadian Player of the Year after busy 2019
TORONTO - Ashley Lawrence, who played in all 15 internationals in 2019 and led the Canadian women in minutes played, has been named Canadian Player of the Year. She joins KAA Gent forward Jonathan Dav...
Dec 12, 2019
6 killed in New Jersey gunbattle, including police officer
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gun battle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy fire for hou...
Dec 12, 2019
Crews still battling fire from crude oil train derailment in central Saskatchewan
LANIGAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's public safety agency says crews are working in frigid temperatures as they continue to battle a fire that started when a freight train carrying...
Dec 12, 2019
Tax cuts, flood fight and cost-control on Manitoba premier's agenda
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister - a man not known for shying away from a scrap - is promising an even "bolder" approach in 2020 with his Progressive Conservative govern...
Dec 12, 2019
Andrew Scheer resigns as Conservative leader
Andrew Scheer says he is stepping down as Conservative leader as soon as a successor can be chosen.Scheer addressed the House of Commons briefly at about noon Eastern time, saying leading his party ha...
Dec 12, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)
Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a "brat" after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilian...
Dec 12, 2019
Canada's Alexis Lafreniere nursing ankle injury at world junior camp
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Alexis Lafreniere had no reason to hit the ice this week. The presumptive No. 1 pick at the 2020 NHL draft, his name has been written in ink on Canada's world junior roster for some t...
Dec 12, 2019
US charges: Mexico ex-security chief took bribes from cartel
NEW YORK - Mexico's former top security chief has been indicted in New York City on charges he accepted a fortune in drug-money bribes from kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's notorious Sinaloa cartel...
Dec 12, 2019
Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest
STOCKHOLM - Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9 millio...
Dec 12, 2019