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Simmonds, Subban hope hockey improves in aftermath of racial slur allegations
MONTREAL - While Wayne Simmonds calls the Akim Aliu-Bill Peters story "extremely disheartening," he hopes it leads to better days for hockey. New Jersey Devils teammate P.K. Subban feels much the same...
Nov 28, 2019
Grey Cup-champion Blue Bombers have 24 players eligible to hit CFL free agency
TORONTO - Once the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Grey Cup hangover subsides, GM Kyle Walters will have some work to do leading up the start of CFL free agency in February. The CFL released its list of player...
Nov 28, 2019
Calgary Stampeders veteran punter Rob Maver retires after 10 CFL seasons
CALGARY - Punter Rob Maver is calling it a career after 10 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders. Maver announced his retirement Thursday. "While this was not an easy decision, at this stage of my life ...
Nov 28, 2019
Climate change threatens food production in countries that need it most: study
About 90 per cent of humanity - including most of the world's poorest people - faces poorer harvests and smaller catches if efforts to fight climate change don't drastically ramp up, says researc...
Nov 28, 2019
Multiple people dead after small plane crashes in Kingston, Ont., police say
KINGSTON, Ont. - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is examining weather as a possible factor in a crash that claimed the lives of multiple people, a spokesman said Thursday as a team of f...
Nov 28, 2019
Hong Kong tunnel reopens, campus siege nears end
HONG KONG - A major tunnel in Hong Kong reopened Wednesday morning and a weeklong police siege of a nearby university appeared to be winding down, closing one of the more violent chapters in the city'...
Nov 28, 2019
NATO’s aging eye in the sky to get a last overhaul
BRUSSELS - NATO and U.S. aircraft-maker Boeing agreed Wednesday a $1 billion contract to refurbish the military alliance's aging fleet of surveillance planes, ensuring that they can continue to serve ...
Nov 28, 2019
Top Alabama court upholds Confederate monument protections
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the majority-black city of Birmingham violated a state law protecting Confederate monuments when it put plywood panels in front of a t...
Nov 28, 2019
Ruckelshaus, who defied Nixon in Watergate firing, dies
SEATTLE - William Doyle Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Wat...
Nov 28, 2019
No more menthol cigarettes: New ban on tobacco, vape flavours
BOSTON - Massachusetts became the first state to ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine vaping products, including menthol cigarettes, after Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law on Wednesday a bi...
Nov 28, 2019