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Scheer takes fight to Bernier, Greens and NDP go head to head on West Coast
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer returns to Quebec today, a province he just left, to campaign alongside the candidate hoping to knock People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier out of the House o...
Oct 18, 2019
Pick 'Em: No clear favourite on Canadian men's curling scene this season
The days of just one or two Canadian men's curling teams being clear favourites on the domestic scene are in the rear-view mirror. With the first Grand Slam of the new campaign to ...
Oct 18, 2019
Maple Leafs set to begin life without John Tavares against Bruins
TORONTO - Alexander Kerfoot was the man in the middle at Maple Leafs' practice on Friday. The centre took up the spot normally occupied by Toronto captain John Tavares, who is out at least two weeks w...
Oct 18, 2019
'Beyond appearance': Singh makes pitch to Quebec voters on shared values
HUDSON, Que. - Before the election campaign began, Jagmeet Singh turned a national spotlight onto his turban, a move aimed at facing head-on the unavoidable fact he is different fr...
Oct 18, 2019
Netflix releases Panama Papers movie despite lawsuit
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Netflix has released a movie based on the so-called Panama Papers despite an attempt by two lawyers to stop the streaming premiere. "The Laundromat," starring Gary Oldman, Antonio B...
Oct 18, 2019
Film academy honours 16 Student Academy Award winners
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "I'd like to thank the academy" is a phrase many only ever get to say in front of their bathroom mirrors. But 16 student filmmakers actually got to utter those words on stage T...
Oct 18, 2019
Chicago teachers to strike in nation's 3rd largest district
Chicago parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for a massive teachers' strike set to begin Thursday, prompting the city to preemptively cancel classes in the nation's third-largest sch...
Oct 18, 2019
Alleged sex assault victim to file lawsuit against Toronto private school
TORONTO - A former student of an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto alleges in court documents that the bullying and sexual assault he suffered at the hands of his schoolmate...
Oct 18, 2019
Kim Kardashian urges clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate
OKLAHOMA CITY - Kim Kardashian West has joined a chorus of voices calling for clemency for a black man on Oklahoma's death row who has exhausted his appeals, arguing that a racist juror tainted the ou...
Oct 18, 2019
'The Casagrandes' extols Mexican American life via animation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nickelodeon's "The Casagrandes" premiered this week and became one of the first cartoons in U.S. history to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long awaited sp...
Oct 18, 2019