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Michael Frolik gets goal in 800th NHL game, Flames down Flyers 3-1
CALGARY - Michael Frolik lost his helmet on his first shift of the game and scored on his second. Frolik's goal in his 800th NHL game helped the Calgary Flames down the visiting Philadelphia...
Oct 16, 2019
3 economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM - Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what wor...
Oct 16, 2019
The Latest: Nobel
STOCKHOLM - The Latest on the Nobel Prize in economics (all times local): 1 a.m. Tuesday Michael Kremer was worried the Skype message was a scam. It appeared to be from a friend in Sweden and said the...
Oct 16, 2019
Conservatives stoke fear of NDP-Liberal coalition as Scheer pushes for majority
OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is raising the spectre of a reckless, tax-and-spend Liberal-NDP coalition government to urge Canadians to hand the Conservatives a majority on Oct. 21. ...
Oct 16, 2019
Report: South Korean pop star Sulli found dead at home
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - News reports said South Korean pop star and actress Sulli was found dead Monday at her home south of Seoul. A report by Yonhap news agency said the 25-year-old was found af...
Oct 16, 2019
Greta Thunberg's Alberta visit and leaders in Quebec; In-The-News for Oct. 16
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 Oct. 16. What we are watching i...
Oct 16, 2019
Maxime Bernier testing voters' loyalties in Quebec's conservative Beauce
SAINT-GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE, Que. - Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, has shaped his political persona in the mould of his home region of the Beauce: fiercel...
Oct 16, 2019
Pot use admission at U.S. border snagging Canadian boomers, says lawyer
VICTORIA - Canadians wanting to cross the U.S. border are being asked different marijuana questions than they were before cannabis was legal, says an American immigration lawyer who represents numerou...
Oct 16, 2019
It's a tie: Atwood and Evaristo share fiction's Booker Prize
LONDON - Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the ...
Oct 16, 2019
Ecuador crisis weakens president, strengthens indigenous
QUITO, Ecuador - Thousands of indigenous demonstrators, student volunteers and local residents launched a mass cleanup Monday of a Quito park where anti-austerity protesters fought police for days, le...
Oct 15, 2019