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Warm Hat crowd greets Wexit Alberta leader
Medicine Hat, AB - A crowd of about 100 showed up on a snowy Sunday to the city's first Wexit meeting, welcoming the separatist movement's leader with a warm reception. "Everything Kenney is talking a...
Nov 10, 2019 Photo courtesy of Alex McCuaig - A group of about 100 people gathered at the Medicine Hat Lodge on Sunday to attend Wexit Alberta's first public meeting in the city.
Missing Clark Atlanta University student found dead
ATLANTA - A missing Clark Atlanta University student has been found dead, authorities said Friday. The body of Alexis Crawford, 21, was found at a park in DeKalb County, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shi...
Nov 10, 2019
Canada’s Kim Boutin wins 500-metre, earns fourth World Cup gold of season
MONTREAL - Canada's Kim Boutin finished first in the women's 500-metre at the ISU short-track World Cup on Sunday for her fourth gold medal of the season. Courtney Sarault of Moncton, N.B., ...
Nov 10, 2019
NewsAlert: Sportsnet apologizes for Don Cherry's anti-immigrant comments
TORONTO - Sportsnet has apologized for TV commentator Don Cherry's remarks on Saturday night's Coach's Corner segment. The network says Cherry's remarks are discriminatory and offensive and do&nb...
Nov 10, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)
HALO still flying but looking for help from province
Medicine Hat, AB - Southeastern Alberta's air ambulance service is continuing to hope for stable financial support from the province. But it will continue to be actively fighting to keep the service g...
Nov 10, 2019 File photo
Two showcase franchises meet as Toronto and Seattle clash again in MLS Cup final
SEATTLE - A season that started in turmoil could end in triumph Sunday for Toronto FC. TFC will have to do it on hostile ground, however, with a sellout crowd of more than 69,000 solidly behind t...
Nov 10, 2019
Michigan man uses battle axe to fight off intruder
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A Michigan man whose hobbies include ritualized combat with replica weapons from the Middle Ages says he wielded a battle axe he calls "my baby" to fend off an intruder. Thir...
Nov 10, 2019
NewsAlert: Toronto FC falls to Seattle Sounders in MLS Cup final
SEATTLE - The Seattle Sounders have won their second Major League Soccer championship. Seattle scored three times in the second half as the Sounders downed Toronto FC 3-1 in the ML...
Nov 10, 2019
Scheifele scores 21 seconds into OT to lift Jets to 3-2 win over Stars
WINNIPEG - Mark Scheifele scored 21 seconds into overtime as the Winnipeg Jets ended the Dallas Stars' winning streak at four games with a 3-2 victory on Sunday. Scheifele got his seventh goal of the ...
Nov 10, 2019
Trevor Harris puts on quite a show as Eskimos down Alouettes in East semifinal
MONTREAL - Trevor Harris threw for 421 yards and a TD as the Edmonton Eskimos held on for an entertaining 37-29 East Division semifinal win over the Montreal Alouettes on Sund...
Nov 10, 2019