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Stuart Skinner calms Oilers' crease: 'Pretty crazy evolution'
Connor McDavid has known Stuart Skinner a long time. Before the game's bright lights - before he'd even been picked by a junior club - the goaltender was grinding away as a teenager beside McDavid at ...
Feb 22, 2023

Canada's Fernandez and American partner Mattek-Sands advance in doubles at Dubai
DUBAI CITY, United Arab Emirates - Canada's Leylah Fernandez and American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands advanced to the women's doubles quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 3-6, 6-1,...
Feb 22, 2023

Canadian military says it has tracked, stopped China surveillance in Arctic waters
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces confirm that they are aware of recent efforts by China to conduct surveillance operations in Canadian airspace and waters. Spokesm...
Feb 22, 2023

Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins to have statue erected in Chatham, Ont.
CHATHAM, Ont. - Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins will be honoured by his hometown with a new statue. The city of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario will unveil a nine-foot tall bronze ...
Feb 22, 2023

NDP MP urges feds to create 'Red Dress Alert' for missing Indigenous women
OTTAWA - An NDP member of Parliament is asking the federal government to establish a system that would send the public a phone notification when an Indigenous woman goes missing. Leah Gazan penned a l...
Feb 22, 2023

Shed fires in Tower Estates under investigation
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Fire investigators are probing what caused a couple of fires in Tower Estates early this morning. Units from Fire Hall 3 raced across Gershaw Drive SW to find two garden sheds fully...
Feb 22, 2023

Biden: Putin's suspension of arms treaty with US a 'mistake'
WARSAW (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a "mistake" by suspending his country's participation in the the last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear arms con...
Feb 22, 2023

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester to run for 4th term in Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana said Wednesday he will seek reelection to a fourth term in 2024, a boost to Democrats' hopes of maintaining a seat in the Republican-leaning stat...
Feb 22, 2023

Palestinians: 6 killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian officials say at least six Palestinians have been killed and dozens were wounded in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. They say that a 72-year-old man was...
Feb 22, 2023

Germany expels 2 Iranian diplomats over death sentence
BERLIN (AP) - Germany said Wednesday that it is expelling two Iranian diplomats over the death sentence imposed in Iran against one of its citizens. Authorities in Iran announced Tuesday that Jamshid ...
Feb 22, 2023