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Tavares scores OT winner as Maple Leafs beat Golden Knights
TORONTO - John Tavares scored at 2:33 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Thursday night. Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto (9-5-3). Frederik And...
Nov 07, 2019
Airline steps up to provide Calgary Zoo with bamboo for picky pandas
CALGARY - A culinary crisis has been avoided at the Calgary Zoo which was facing a bamboo shortage for its four giant pandas. The pandas, which staff admit are picky eaters, munch on about 1...
Nov 07, 2019
Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufio Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-...
Nov 07, 2019
Human rights ruling says Manitoba must offer gender-neutral birth certificates
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been ordered to start offering non-binary sex designations on its birth certificates. A human rights adjudicator has also ordered the province to pay $50,00...
Nov 07, 2019
Nanaimo's Bortolotto getting lots of attention for her baseball skills
NANAIMO - One of the region's best baseball players is expanding her horizons.In the last two years 17-year-old Isabella Bortolotto has gone to Cuba twice, and other destinations like Florida and Illi...
Nov 07, 2019 17-year-old Isabella Bortolotto is competing with and against some of the best female baseball players from Canada and around the world. (Roberta Bortolotto)
Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales
NEW YORK - Gap's announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also slashed its earnings o...
Nov 07, 2019
Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord
BEIJING - The prospects for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war improved Thursday after the two sides agreed to reduce some punitive tariffs on each other's goods, though the full e...
Nov 07, 2019
Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that had employed Secretary David Bernhardt as ...
Nov 07, 2019
Bittersweet Conservative post-election gathering set for Ottawa Wednesday
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer knows more Latin than most. And at this week's first Conservative caucus meeting following the Oct. 21 election, many will be listening for ho...
Nov 07, 2019
Trudeau defends NATO as French president warns of alliance's 'brain death'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NATO after France's president suggested a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the 70-year-old military alliance's "brain death." Trudeau, who met Thu...
Nov 07, 2019