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Opponents to ramp up protests against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say they will do whatever it takes to stop the project after suffering a devastating legal blow at the Federal Court of Appeal. Activists...
Feb 07, 2020

NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveller programs
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating in "trusted traveller programs" in retribution for ...
Feb 07, 2020

Sen. Lynn Beyak denies claiming to be Metis
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is denying she ever claimed to be Metis. She issued a two-line statement Wednesday saying the media have reported that she is Metis but she says she has never been a...
Feb 07, 2020

Father of Indigenous hockey player rejects report on racist taunts
WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...
Feb 07, 2020

Sens winger Bobby Ryan practises for 1st time since entering assistance program
Ottawa Senators winger Bobby Ryan practised with the team Wednesday for the first time since entering the NHL/National Hockey League Players' Association assistance program in November. Head ...
Feb 07, 2020

Father of Indigenous hockey player rejects report on racist taunts
WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...
Feb 07, 2020

Airbnb limits young people's ability to rent properties following deadly shooting
TORONTO - Airbnb will limit young adults' ability to book some properties in Canada in a pilot project aimed at cutting down on unauthorized parties like the one where three young men were killed in T...
Feb 07, 2020

Obit-Roger Kahn
MAMARONECK, N.Y. - Roger Kahn, the writer who wove memoir and baseball and touched millions of readers through his romantic account of the Brooklyn Dodgers in "The Boys of Summer," has died. He was 92...
Feb 07, 2020

Weinstein accuser says he 'trapped' her during hotel assault
NEW YORK - The final accuser at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Wednesday that he stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast in a hotel bathroom in 2013, all the whi...
Feb 07, 2020

Obit-Roger Kahn
MAMARONECK, N.Y. - Roger Kahn, the writer who wove memoir and baseball and touched millions of readers through his romantic account of the Brooklyn Dodgers in "The Boys of Summer," has died. He was 92...
Feb 07, 2020