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Canada's Desiree Scott still relishes role as a midfielder destroyer
EDINBURG, Texas - While Canada coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller has looked to build a team able to switch formations and roles, Desiree Scott's position remains largely unchanged. The 32-year-old from Winn...
Feb 04, 2020

Huskies and Pirates kick off NPHL playoffs with best-of-five preliminary series
The North Peace Hockey League playoffs begin Tuesday night with a best-of-five series that will start in Falher, where the Pirates take on the Grimshaw Huskies to decide who will earn the right to pla...
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Canada's Kripps wins bobsled finale, Germany's Friedrich wins World Cup title
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland - Canada's Justin Kripps won the final four-man bobseld race of the season on Sunday while Germany's Francesco Friedrich took the overall World Cup four-man cham...
Feb 04, 2020

Former Canadian captain Paul Stalteri joins York 9 FC as assistant coach
TORONTO - Former Canadian captain Paul Stalteri has joined York 9 FC of the Canadian Premier League as assistant coach to Jimmy Brennan. The 42-year-old Stalteri joins the CPL team from the Canada Soc...
Feb 04, 2020

Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death
LONDON - A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offences strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street Sunday before being shot to death ...
Feb 04, 2020

US general slips into Iraq for talks to salvage relations
The top U.S. commander for the Middle East slipped quietly into Iraq Tuesday, as the Trump administration works to salvage relations with Iraqi leaders and shut down the government's push for an Ameri...
Feb 04, 2020

Hall of Fame voter who snubbed Jeter keeps ballot private
NEW YORK - The lone baseball writer who did not vote for Derek Jeter for the Hall of Fame chose to keep his or her ballot private. The Baseball Writers' Association of America released the ballots of ...
Feb 04, 2020

Canadians in Wuhan to be evacuated Thursday, government letter says
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says a plane meant to pick up Canadians from Wuhan, China is on its way to Vietnam. In a tweet Tuesday morning, Champagne says the charter fli...
Feb 04, 2020

Olerud, Morneau headline 2020 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame class
ST. MARYS, Ont. - Former Toronto Blue Jays first baseman and two-time World Series champion John Olerud headlines the four-man class that will be inducted into the Canadian Basebal...
Feb 04, 2020

Brazil's government blasts Oscar-nominated documentary-maker
SAO PAULO - Brazil's government criticized Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa on Monday after she once more labeled far-right President Jair Bolsonaro a risk to the country's democracy. Costa's doc...
Feb 04, 2020