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Annette Bening to receive AARP Movies for Grownups award
LOS ANGELES - Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine's lifetime achievement honour at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that Bening will accept the career...
Nov 05, 2019
Fajardo, Evans and Adams Jr. have all emerged as CFL stars this season
Cody Fajardo, Dane Evans and Vernon Adams Jr. have made 2019 the year of the backup CFL quarterback. All three began the season as backups but when opportunity knocked, they a...
Nov 05, 2019
Sleepless in Seattle. The MLS Cup final kicks off early in Pacific Northwest
TORONTO - While it may not be sleepless in Seattle, Toronto FC will have an early start Sunday at the MLS Cup final with kickoff at noon local time (3 p.m. ET) at CenturyLink Field. And that has not h...
Nov 05, 2019
Youth not employed or in school face poorer mental, physical health: study
OTTAWA - A new study is offering what it calls a rare look at the health and psychological impacts endured by Canadian youth who are not working, training or st...
Nov 05, 2019
Saudi Arabia formally starts IPO of state-run oil firm
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia formally started its long-anticipated initial public offering of its state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday, which will see a sliver of the firm offered on a l...
Nov 05, 2019
Iranian president announces another break from nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president says Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges, the latest step away from its nuclear deal since President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord ov...
Nov 05, 2019
Ex-NFL player Winslow Jr takes plea deal before rape retrial
VISTA, Calif. - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the ...
Nov 04, 2019
City looking at best ways to split up energy dividend
Medicine Hat, AB - Last week, the City of Medicine Hat announced that they were expecting major profits from their energy department.Predicting its dividend to total $42.4 million dollars for the year...
Nov 04, 2019 The City of Medicine Hat Power Plant - Photo by Colton McKee
Stampeders secure 2nd in West, home playoff game with 21-16 win over Lions
VANCOUVER - It may not have been graceful but the Calgary Stampeders still snatched a crucial win over the B.C. Lions in Vancouver on Saturday. "It was a challenge. That's the way we've play...
Nov 04, 2019
Wine cellar in space: 12 bottles arrive for year of aging
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A dozen bottles of fine French wine arrived at the space station Monday, not for the astronauts, but for science. The red Bordeaux wine will age for a year up there before retur...
Nov 04, 2019