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Quebec trying to determine whether to cancel world figure skating championships
MONTREAL - Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann says the government is evaluating whether to allow the world figure skating championships to go ahead next week in Montreal. Her comments today come a...
Mar 09, 2020
Alberta economy, reeling from coronavirus, takes gut punch due to oil price war
Alberta's oil-based economy, already reeling by reduced demand due to the novel coronavirus, is now getting a gut punch from global prices.The spiral of oil prices has accelerated due to an all-out pr...
Mar 09, 2020
Canada's Kingsbury claims ninth straight moguls Crystal Globe with win in Russia
KRASNOYARSK, Russia - Canada's Mikael Kingsbury picked up his ninth straight World Cup overall moguls title with a win in Saturday's dual moguls in Russia. Kingsbury defeated Thomas Gerken Schofield o...
Mar 09, 2020
Zibanejad, Landeskog, Draisaitl named NHL's three stars of the week
New York Rangers centre Mika Zibanejad, Colorado Avalanche left-wing Gabriel Landeskog and Edmonton Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl are the NHL's three stars of the week. Zibanejad topped the NHL wi...
Mar 09, 2020
NDP calls for moratorium on Clearview AI facial recognition software
OTTAWA - NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus wants the Liberal government to issue a moratorium on the use of controversial facial-recognition software by the RCMP. The U.S. firm Clearview AI claims to al...
Mar 09, 2020
US begins troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, official says
WASHINGTON - American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, amid political chaos in Kabul...
Mar 09, 2020
Trainers, vets, others charged in horse-drugging scheme
More than two dozen people, including the trainer of champion Maximum Security, have been charged in what authorities described Monday as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them ...
Mar 09, 2020
Handcuffed Ronaldinho and brother appear in Paraguayan court
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Former soccer star Ronaldinho and his brother were taken in handcuffs to a courthouse in Paraguay on Saturday following their arrest for allegedly entering the country with falsif...
Mar 09, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 10:47 a.m. Ontario health officials have announced three new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringi...
Mar 09, 2020
Dow drops 1,500 points as oil price plunge shocks markets
NEW YORK - Fear bludgeoned financial markets around the world Monday, and stocks, bond yields and oil plunged on metastasizing worries about the effects of the new coronavirus. The most violent drops ...
Mar 09, 2020