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With less than 3 weeks to go, a look at potential targets ahead of NHL trade deadline
An NHL season like no other could produce a trade deadline like no other. The league's 56-game schedule played amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has been unique in a number of ways, including realigned div...
Mar 23, 2021

Canadian national artistic swimming coach Gabor Szauder taking leave of absence
OTTAWA - Canadian Artistic Swimming national team head coach Gabor Szauder is taking a personal leave pending the outcome of a discipline panel hearing in the aftermath of complaints from athletes.The...
Mar 23, 2021

Authorities say coroner to probe 86-year-old woman's death in Montreal hospital
MONTREAL - Health officials in Montreal say they will ask the coroner to investigate the death of an 86-year-old woman reportedly found lifeless on the floor in a hospital emergency room. Candida Maca...
Mar 23, 2021

One year on, poll suggests Canadians still deeply wary about allowing U.S. visitors
WASHINGTON - A new poll suggests Canadians remain deeply wary about the prospect of allowing visitors from the United States. The online Lger poll was conducted last week for the Association for Canad...
Mar 23, 2021

'Dynamic' situation in NE Medicine Hat resolved
UPDATE: The situation in the 1600 block of Second Avenue NE has been resolved. Medicine Hat police say they received a report of a male in distress at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. The area was secured for a ...
Mar 23, 2021

RCMP flouted internet policy; U.S. shooting leaves 10 dead: In The News for March 23
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 23 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Mar 23, 2021

Israel votes: Netanyahu's fate hangs on Tuesday's elections
JERUSALEM - Israelis began voting on Tuesday in the country's fourth parliamentary election in two years - a highly charged referendum on the divisive rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Public...
Mar 23, 2021

RCMP breached policy on collection of online information: audit
OTTAWA - An internal review says the RCMP routinely flouted its own policies when gathering information from the internet, potentially endangering investigations and prosecutions. The newly released a...
Mar 23, 2021

Advocates critique rising jail figures in some provinces after initial COVID-19 fall
HALIFAX - A report by advocates for Canadian inmates is criticizing the rising rates of incarceration in at least two provincial jail systems amid the continuing pandemic. About a year after the first...
Mar 23, 2021

Lowry scores twice as Winnipeg Jets down Vancouver Canucks 4-0
VANCOUVER - Two goals from Adam Lowry powered the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday. Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 22 shots he faced to collect his first ...
Mar 22, 2021