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Second Quebec health care worker fired after Indigenous woman's hospital death
MONTREAL - A second health-care worker has been fired in connection with the treatment of an Indigenous woman who was subjected to degrading remarks in a hospital northeast of Montreal before she died...
Oct 01, 2020
Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo
NEW YORK - The image is haunting, depicting a gaunt-faced man with a familiar beard, staring ahead lifelessly. The right eye is bulging and appears disfigured from an unseen wound. Some experts believ...
Oct 01, 2020
Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions
NEW YORK - Frederick Wiseman has spent more than half a century documenting American institutions. With a small crew, he has tirelessly made lengthy, sober, engrossing filmic portraits of life in Jack...
Oct 01, 2020
Canadian women's hockey team forward Sarah Nurse ready for change
Sarah Nurse has stood in the crosswinds of societal and sport upheaval. Her hockey career in flux because of a collective movement to further the women's game, the COVID-19 pandemic threw another laye...
Oct 01, 2020
Former Toronto FC midfielder Warren Creavalle making his mark off the field
Emotions ran high before the opening game of the MLS is Back Tournament opener July 8 in Florida when more than 170 Black players, coaches and officials joined Orlando City and Inter Miami players on ...
Oct 01, 2020
Copper wire thieves shut down night activities at Merle Logan Field
NANAIMO - The lights are off at a busy Nanaimo field after a substantial amount of copper wiring was stolen. Thieves made off with between 300 and 500 feet of copper wire from lighting fixtures at Mer...
Oct 01, 2020
Hundreds of Honduran migrants set out for US amid pandemic
CORINTO, Honduras - About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronaviru...
Oct 01, 2020
Barrett opposed 'abortion on demand,' raising doubts on Roe
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 newspaper ad sponsored by an anti-abortion group in which she said she opposed "abortion on demand" and defended "the right to life f...
Oct 01, 2020
WHL's Moose Jaw Warriors announce formal review of primary team logo
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - The Moose Jaw Warriors hockey team will conduct a formal review of its primary logo. The Western Hockey League team announced the review as the next step in an "ongoing internal dis...
Oct 01, 2020
Montreal Impact acquire striker Mason Toye from Minnesota FC
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have a new attacking piece, acquiring striker Mason Toye from Minnesota FC on Thursday. Toye has seven goals and four assists in 42 career Major League Soccer game...
Oct 01, 2020