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Annette Bening to receive AARP Movies for Grownups award
LOS ANGELES - Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine's lifetime achievement honour at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that Bening will accept the career...
Nov 5, 2019
Fajardo, Evans and Adams Jr. have all emerged as CFL stars this season
Cody Fajardo, Dane Evans and Vernon Adams Jr. have made 2019 the year of the backup CFL quarterback. All three began the season as backups but when opportunity knocked, they a...
Nov 5, 2019
Sleepless in Seattle. The MLS Cup final kicks off early in Pacific Northwest
TORONTO - While it may not be sleepless in Seattle, Toronto FC will have an early start Sunday at the MLS Cup final with kickoff at noon local time (3 p.m. ET) at CenturyLink Field. And that has not h...
Nov 5, 2019
Accused in two drug arrests sentenced to 20 months in jail
Alberta Justice says a man charged after a pair of 2018 drug arrests in Grande Prairie has been handed a 20-month jail sentence. Cameron Joseph Pike pleaded guilty to nine of the more than 70 charges ...
Nov 5, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith
Curling update: Grand Slam resumes, International flavour at Slave Lake Cash
Pictou, Nova Scotia is hosting the second Grand Slam of Curling event of the season this week.Play at the Tour Challenge starts today.Team Gushue, with Beaverlodge's Geoff Walker at lead, will open pl...
Nov 5, 2019 Photo from the Grand Slam of Curling Facebook page.
Youth not employed or in school face poorer mental, physical health: study
OTTAWA - A new study is offering what it calls a rare look at the health and psychological impacts endured by Canadian youth who are not working, training or st...
Nov 5, 2019
Saudi Arabia formally starts IPO of state-run oil firm
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia formally started its long-anticipated initial public offering of its state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday, which will see a sliver of the firm offered on a l...
Nov 5, 2019
Iranian president announces another break from nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president says Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges, the latest step away from its nuclear deal since President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord ov...
Nov 5, 2019
Ex-NFL player Winslow Jr takes plea deal before rape retrial
VISTA, Calif. - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the ...
Nov 4, 2019
Stampeders secure 2nd in West, home playoff game with 21-16 win over Lions
VANCOUVER - It may not have been graceful but the Calgary Stampeders still snatched a crucial win over the B.C. Lions in Vancouver on Saturday. "It was a challenge. That's the way we've play...
Nov 4, 2019