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Four Canadians named to CONCACAF Best 11 at Olympic qualifying tournament
Teenager Jordyn Huitema, who led the tournament in scoring, is one of four Canadians named to the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Championship Best 11. The 18-year-old striker is joined by goalkeeper Stephan...
Feb 12, 2020

Nanaimo man awaits sentence for massive child porn stash
NANAIMO - A Nanaimo man has pleaded guilty to possessing thousands of graphic pictures and videos of children being sexually abused.William Herbert Kreibom, 63, entered a guilty plea in provincial cou...
Feb 12, 2020 63-year-old William Kreibom pleaded guilty to possessing child porn in Nanaimo over a one-year period. He's scheduled to be sentenced this spring. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

'Never happened': Model denies trapping Weinstein accuser
NEW YORK - In the strongest defence testimony yet, a Mexican model and actress denied a Harvey Weinstein accuser's claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped he...
Feb 12, 2020

Cdn troops won't return to Iraq without Iraq's explicit approval, Champagne says
ALI AL-SALEM AIR BASE, Kuwait - Canada's troops are eager to get back to work training Iraqi security forces but it won't happen unless Canada is certain of their safety and Iraq invites them to retur...
Feb 12, 2020

Canada to host Lima Group ministers meeting on Venezuela crisis next week
OTTAWA - Canada will host a meeting of its Lima Group partners next week in an attempt to build new momentum in their effort to bring democracy to Venezuela. The gathering of foreign ministe...
Feb 12, 2020

German filmmaker Vilsmaier, known for 'Stalingrad,' dies
BERLIN - Joseph Vilsmaier, a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died. He was 81. His agent confirmed Wednesd...
Feb 12, 2020

Longtime newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford dead at 68
TORONTO - Longtime newspaper columnist, author and firebrand Christie Blatchford, a hardnosed scribe known for deep-sourced scoops and biting opinion pieces, has died. She was 68. Blatc...
Feb 12, 2020

More businesses reopen in China, but many people stay home
BEIJING - More offices and stores in Beijing and other parts of China finally reopened Monday after the Lunar New Year break was extended to discourage travel and contain the new coronavirus, but many...
Feb 12, 2020

Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan on Monday that recycles deep, previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and housi...
Feb 12, 2020

Trial team quits Roger Stone case in dispute over sentence
WASHINGTON - The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time i...
Feb 12, 2020