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Crown says former SNC-Lavalin exec Bebawi should be sentenced to 9 years
MONTREAL - Former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi tarnished Canada's reputation and helped perpetuate the corrupt dictatorial regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, federal prosecutor Anne-Marie M...
Dec 21, 2019
Feds won't let resistant premiers scuttle municipal handgun bans: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he won't let resistance from unwilling premiers scuttle the plans of municipalities that want to ban handguns. In an interview with The Canadian P...
Dec 21, 2019
Prince Harry, Meghan and Archie in Canada for the holidays
TORONTO - If you're out and about in Canada this holiday season and happen to spot a couple with a young boy that look remarkably like Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and their son Archie, your eye...
Dec 21, 2019
In Nova Scotia, extremes of elation and despair in wake of N.S. mill closure
NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - There was despair and elation in northeastern Nova Scotia on Saturday as the fallout of a pulp mill's coming closure started to ripple through communities ...
Dec 21, 2019
Major League Soccer releases full schedule for 25th anniversary season
Toronto FC will have to wait until July 18 to have another crack at the MLS champion Seattle Sounders. Vancouver misses out on facing Inter Miami CF while Montreal will have to wait a year to play Nas...
Dec 21, 2019
Benoit-Olivier Groulx final cut as Canada prepares for world juniors
BRNO, Czech Republic - Benoit-Olivier Groulx of the Halifax Mooseheads was the final cut Hockey Canada made on Saturday as Canada finalized its roster ahead of the world junior hockey championship. Th...
Dec 21, 2019
Canada's Noah Bowman earns halfpipe skiing gold; teammate Karker takes silver
SECRET GARDEN, China - Calgary's Noah Bowman won gold in the skiing halfpipe and Rachael Karker of Erin, Ont., took silver in the women's event at a World Cup freestyle skiing event. The third stop on...
Dec 21, 2019
Man City beats Leicester, shows stomach for EPL title fight
If any team has a chance of stopping Liverpool marching to a first English league title in 30 years, it looks to be Manchester City rather than Leicester. City gave a timely reminder of its champion q...
Dec 21, 2019
England's 1966 World Cup winner Martin Peters dies at age 76
Martin Peters, whose place in English soccer lore was secured by scoring one of the national team's goals in its victory over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final, died Saturday after a long battl...
Dec 21, 2019
Liverpool beats Flamengo to win its 1st Club World Cup title
DOHA, Qatar - Roberto Firmino clinched Liverpool's first Club World Cup title on Saturday, scoring in extra time to seal a 1-0 victory in the final over Flamengo to assert Europe's footballing dominan...
Dec 21, 2019