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Raptors stars Siakam, Barnes return to lineup for game against Cavaliers
TORONTO - The depleted Toronto Raptors got a huge boost before their game Monday night against Cleveland with the return of stars Pascal Siakam and Scottie Barnes. Siakam missed 10 games with a strain...
Nov 28, 2022
Pence calls on Trump to apologize for dinner with antisemite
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump "demonstrated profoundly poor judgment" and called on him to apologize after the former president had dinner last week with...
Nov 28, 2022
Liberals did not show fiscal restraint in fall update: parliamentary budget officer
OTTAWA - Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux says the federal government did not show fiscal restraint in its recent fall economic statement. Giroux told MPs at a House of Commons finance committ...
Nov 28, 2022
"It was time for Canada" — Davis Cup team tennis trophy finally in Canadian hands
Robert Bettauer was Tennis Canada's director of tennis development some three decades ago when the federation created a vision statement with some lofty goals. One of the top priorities was to one day...
Nov 28, 2022
Human rights commissioner calls for an end to police officer program in B.C. schools
VANCOUVER - B.C.'s human rights commissioner is calling for the end of liaison officer programs that put police in schools just as Vancouver's school board prepares to vote on a motion to bring them b...
Nov 28, 2022
Arbitrator will referee Dr. J's suit against brand developer
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge on Monday halted a lawsuit filed by basketball legend Julius Erving against a brand-development and marketing company, ruling that the dispute must go to arbitratio...
Nov 28, 2022
New B.C. medical school at Simon Fraser to train next generation of doctors: premier
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's New Democrat government is moving forward with an election promise to build a new medical school at Simon Fraser University's Surrey campus. Premier David Eby says th...
Nov 28, 2022
Panthers forward Tkachuk returns to province where he was loved, and loathed
EDMONTON - For six seasons, Matthew Tkachuk wore the fiery Flames logo on his chest. But, on the eve of his return to Calgary, he kept the rhetoric cool. "Obviously I've thought about it," Tkachuk sai...
Nov 28, 2022
Line 5 shutdown 'draconian,' both sides must consider 'imperfect' alternatives: judge
WASHINGTON - A judge in Wisconsin is ordering Enbridge Inc. and an Indigenous band to confer about "imperfect" alternatives to shutting down the cross-border Line 5 pipeline. District Court Judge Will...
Nov 28, 2022
Hundreds in Vancouver rally in sympathy with China COVID protests
VANCOUVER - Hundreds of people have rallied in Vancouver in sympathy with rare protests that are sweeping across China in response to the country's hardline zero-COVID lockdown policies. The protester...
Nov 28, 2022