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Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi turns pro
TORONTO - Former Canadian amateur boxing champion Moe Zawadi is turning pro. The 19-year-old middleweight from Barrie, Ont., has signed with Toronto-based Lee Baxter Promotions and is expected to make...
Jan 30, 2021
As California virus cases fall, more people than ever dying
LOS ANGELES - As a hospice nurse, Antonio Espinoza worked to ease people's passage into death. Just 36 years old, it seemed unlikely he soon would be on that journey. But when the unpredictable corona...
Jan 30, 2021
'100 per cent Indigenous:' New mask factory on Alberta reserve to employ band members
EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he's worked through several headaches that c...
Jan 30, 2021
Gabriola Island non-profit breathing new life into old clothes
GABRIOLA ISLAND - Reduction of clothing and textile waste in the region is top of mind for a local non-profit.Gabriola Island Recycling Organization (GIRO) received $103,044 in RDN funding for a texti...
Jan 30, 2021
'100 per cent Indigenous:' New mask factory on Alberta reserve to employ band members
EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he's worked through several headaches that c...
Jan 30, 2021
New book sees a 'New Possible' emerging from 2020's tumult
SAN RAMON, Calif. - In pop culture, 2020 has been understandably reviled as the "hell year." It tormented us with a lethal pandemic spiraling out of control, thousands of shuttered businesses, violent...
Jan 30, 2021
Edgar Wright explores ‘glam rock anomaly’ Sparks in doc
Ever heard of the band Sparks? If you haven't, you're not alone. If you have, it's not unlikely that they're one of your favourite bands. The pop rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael has i...
Jan 30, 2021
Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon finishes third in World Cup super-G
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon captured bronze to win her first medal in nearly five years, while Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami won her third straight World Cup super...
Jan 30, 2021
Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon finishes third in World Cup super-G
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon captured bronze to win her first medal in nearly five years, while Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami won her third straight World Cup super...
Jan 30, 2021
Biden warns of growing cost of delay on economic aid plan
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is warning of a steep and growing "cost of inaction" on his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as the White House searched for "creative" ways to win public support fo...
Jan 30, 2021