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Power fully restored two weeks after major snowstorm hit Manitoba
WINNIPEG - Electricity is back on in all communities that lost power two weeks ago, when Manitoba was hit by a major snowstorm that brought down power poles and transmission towers. Manitoba Hydr...
Oct 25, 2019
House investigators subpoena 3 more administration officials
WASHINGTON - House impeachment investigators are issuing subpoenas to three more Trump administration officials. They're demanding that the three testify in their probe of President Donald Trump's eff...
Oct 25, 2019
Halifax ceremony marks 50th anniversary of Navy's worst peacetime accident
HALIFAX - Allan "Dinger" Bell has no idea how long he was in the flames that engulfed the HMCS Kootenay engine room after the destroyer was rocked by an explosion that led to the worst peacetime accid...
Oct 25, 2019
Regina's Mosaic Stadium steps onto NHL stage with an outdoor game
REGINA - The NHL's outdoor game in Regina doesn't have a player from the province of Saskatchewan in it, or even a Western Hockey League Regina Pats alumnus. So the player with perhaps ...
Oct 25, 2019
Oilsands part of second U.S. fraud lawsuit against Exxon over carbon pricing
Alberta's oilsands are at the centre of a second major fraud lawsuit filed in the United States against ExxonMobil. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by the state of Massachusetts, accuses the oil multin...
Oct 25, 2019
Felicity Huffman released 11 days into 14-day prison term
SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Felicity Huffman was released Friday morning from a federal prison in California on the 11th day of a 14-day sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal, authoritie...
Oct 25, 2019
People's Party had minimal impact on election results, but sentiments persist
OTTAWA - The long-predicted vote split on the right between the federal Conservatives and the People's Party of Canada failed to materialize in Monday's election, but that doesn't mean the s...
Oct 25, 2019
Bellator champion Rory (Red King) MacDonald balances faith and fighting
NEW YORK - After earning a majority draw with veteran Jon Fitch in April, Canadian welterweight Rory (Red King) MacDonald wondered in his post-fight interview if he still had "that same drive to ...
Oct 25, 2019
'Blaze of destruction:' Crown says Edmonton attack accused meant to cause chaos
EDMONTON - A man accused of stabbing a police officer and striking four pedestrians with a cube van was trying to cause as much chaos and destruction as possible, the Crown said in its closing st...
Oct 25, 2019
Police investigate after man, two children found dead in apparent murder suicide
MONTREAL - A steady stream of shocked locals stopped Wednesday outside the east-end Montreal house where two children and their father were found dead the night before in what police are investigating...
Oct 25, 2019