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Norway's Lie quickest in training for Lake Louise women's World Cup downhills
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie was fastest in Thursday's training run for the season-opening World Cup women's downhills. Lie posted a time of one minute 51.54 seconds in L...
Dec 05, 2019
Guard: Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Minnesota; 3 aboard
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - A Black Hawk helicopter with three crew members aboard crashed Thursday in central Minnesota, a state National Guard official said. Minnesota National Guard Master Sgt. Blair Heusde...
Dec 05, 2019
San Francisco Opera names its first female music director
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Opera has named conductor Eun Sun Kim its new music director, ushering the first woman into the job in the company's history. The 39-year-old Kim will become the comp...
Dec 05, 2019
Liberal throne speech pledges to work with opposition MPs, welcome their ideas
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has launched his second mandate and a new era of minority Liberal government with a throne speech light on details but heavy on the need for all parties to work together. The s...
Dec 05, 2019 Parliament Hill - Dreamstime Stock image
Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 05, 2019
Snowbirds aerobatics team returns to full operations after crash in U.S.
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatics team is returning to full operations after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying ...
Dec 05, 2019
Manitoba NDP seek honorary premier title for Louis Riel
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition wants to give the title of honorary first premier to Metis leader Louis Riel. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has put forward a private member's bill that would bestow ...
Dec 05, 2019
Chinese ambassador warns Canada against adopting motion calling for sanctions
MONTREAL - China's ambassador to Canada is threatening what he called "very firm countermeasures" should Parliament adopt a motion calling for sanctions against Chinese leaders. Ambassador P...
Dec 05, 2019
Cale Makar making early run at Calder Trophy: 'I haven't seen anybody like him'
TORONTO - It was pointed out to Cale Makar back in September he didn't seem at all daunted by sky-high expectations. The defenceman had announced his arrival in the NHL some five months...
Dec 05, 2019
From seals to belugas, scientists describe worrying signs for Arctic 'sentinels'
HALIFAX - Scientists attending a national gathering of Arctic researchers are outlining a widening range of climate change risks for so-called "sentinel" species, such as ringed seals a...
Dec 05, 2019