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BP lays out long-term ambition to achieve net-zero emissions
LONDON - Energy producer BP said Wednesday it wants to eliminate or offset all carbon emissions from its operations and the oil and gas it sells to customers by 2050, an ambitious target born out of p...
Feb 12, 2020
Powell hears bipartisan Senate support for Fed independence
WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic senators voiced strong support for an independent Federal Reserve during a hearing with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, one day after President Donald Trump launched an...
Feb 12, 2020
Ex-Hasidic woman tells trial she was exempted from secular studies at age 13
MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic woman has told a trial in Quebec Superior Court that she was exempted from language and math classes beginning at age 13 because it was ...
Feb 12, 2020
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire arrested in Florida on exposure charge
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Toronto Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire is facing a misdemeanour exposure charge after an incident last week in Dunedin, Fla., and a court date has been scheduled for ne...
Feb 12, 2020
Giants add veteran pitcher Cahill on minor league deal
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The San Francisco Giants signed veteran right-hander Trevor Cahill to a minor league contract Wednesday, and Cahill took part in the day's first spring training workout for pitcher...
Feb 12, 2020
Prabal Gurung celebrates the churning creative energy of NYC
NEW YORK - In celebration of the grit and eclectic glamour of his adopted New York City, Prabal Gurung staged his New York Fashion Week show Tuesday night at the famed Rainbow Room high above Midtown ...
Feb 12, 2020
Forward Pierre Engvall inks two-year extension with Toronto Maple Leafs
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Pierre Engvall to a two-year, US$2.5-million extension. The 23-year-old native of Sweden has seven goals and seven assists in 35 games with the Le...
Feb 12, 2020
'A lost soul': How Leafs goalie Jack Campbell rediscovered his love for hockey
TORONTO - Jack Campbell wasn't in a good place. Billed as the next Jonathan Quick or Ryan Miller - the next great American goalie - the former first-round pick had made just one NHL appearan...
Feb 12, 2020
Bar owner, manager given 9 years for gang sexual assault in Toronto bar
TORONTO - A former bar owner and his manager were sentenced on Wednesday to a total of nine years each for the hours-long drugging and sexual assault of a barely conscious woman in 2016. In passi...
Feb 12, 2020
QuickQuotes: Journalists, politicians react to Christie Blatchford's death
Veteran newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, whose fiery polemics framed Canadian news for five decades, has died at 68. Word of her death sparked an outpouring of online tributes from r...
Feb 12, 2020