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Get holiday mail out the door soon, says Canada Post
All those holiday gifts need somebody to deliver them and chances are it's Canada Post getting them to their destination."We see volumes increase drastically this time of year," Bob Vibert, the manage...
Dec 07, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News)

'Devastated': 3 crew killed in Black Hawk crash in Minnesota
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm fiel...
Dec 07, 2019

Joshua beats Ruiz on points, reclaims heavyweight titles
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Anthony Joshua reclaimed his world heavyweight titles Sunday by producing a disciplined and smart display to beat Andy Ruiz Jr. on points in their rematch in the first title fig...
Dec 07, 2019

San Francisco Opera names its first female music director
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Opera has named conductor Eun Sun Kim its new music director, ushering the first woman into the job in the company's history. The 39-year-old Kim will become the comp...
Dec 07, 2019

"Anne with an E" creator says show won't be revived despite fan petition
TORONTO - The creator of the CBC/Netflix drama series "Anne with an E" said she was "moved to tears" by the fan response to the show's cancellation, but said the series will not be renewed despite the...
Dec 07, 2019

Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer wins World Cup downhill in Lake Louise
LAKE LOUIS, Alta. - Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria won the women's World Cup downhill on Saturday at Lake Louise, Alta. Schmidhofer's time was one minute 49.92 seconds. She was the only woman to g...
Dec 07, 2019

Canadian skiers Remme, Gagnon pursue downhill gains for combined success
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Canada lacks a classic downhiller in women's ski racing, but speed is vitally important to the all-rounders on the national alpine team. Roni Remme of Collingw...
Dec 07, 2019

Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 07, 2019

Chinese ambassador warns Canada against adopting motion calling for sanctions
MONTREAL - China's new ambassador to Canada is threatening "very firm countermeasures" if Parliament adopts a motion calling for sanctions over alleged Chinese human rights abuses again...
Dec 07, 2019

Cale Makar making early run at Calder Trophy: 'I haven't seen anybody like him'
TORONTO - It was pointed out to Cale Makar back in September he didn't seem at all daunted by sky-high expectations. The defenceman had announced his arrival in the NHL some five months...
Dec 07, 2019