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Canadians in Wuhan to be flown out Thursday: government letter
A chartered plane that's to airlift Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China was on its way overseas Tuesday, while its prospective passengers were told to get ready to leave. Forei...
Feb 06, 2020

Canadian duo first after pairs short program at Four Continents figure skating
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Canadians Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro placed first in Thursday's pairs short program ahead of two Chinese couples - including the reigning world champions&nbs...
Feb 06, 2020

Trump courts black voters, but opposition remains deep
DETROIT - President Donald Trump took African American guests to his State of the Union speech, ran a Super Bowl ad boasting how he's making the criminal justice system more equitable for black people...
Feb 06, 2020

Impeachment loses its constitutional gravity in Trump case
WASHINGTON - Years from now, will you remember where you were and what you were doing when President Donald Trump was impeached? Have you forgotten already? The country has been on a constitutional bu...
Feb 06, 2020

Trump unleashes fury at impeachment enemies at prayer event
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unleashed his fury against those who tried to remove him from office at a prayer breakfast Thursday, a day after his acquittal by the Senate in his impeachment tria...
Feb 06, 2020

US productivity up 1.7% in 2019, best gain in 9 years
WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity rebounded in the final three months of last year, helping to boost productivity growth for the year to the best showing in nearly a decade. The Labor Department's Bureau...
Feb 06, 2020

Train derails near Guernsey, Sask. for second time this winter
GUERNSEY, Sask. - A freight train has derailed in rural Saskatchewan and residents are being evacuated from the area.Canadian Pacific says the train jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near Guernsey, ro...
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Olerud, Morneau headline 2020 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame class
When Justin Morneau was a young kid working on his swing in his British Columbia backyard, there were three players he wanted to emulate. The first, Ken Griffey Jr., was a first-ballot Hall of Famer i...
Feb 06, 2020

Tokyo tries to quell fear of Olympic-Paralympic cancellation
Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers again tried on Thursday to allay fears that the 2020 Games could be postponed or cancelled by the fast-spreading virus from China. Tokyo Olympic CEO Toshiro Mut...
Feb 06, 2020

Impeachment, shmimpeachment: Trump plans to run, and win, on economic record
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared his scorched-earth political style an unmitigated success Tuesday in a fiercely partisan, made-for-TV state of the union speech that made it...
Feb 06, 2020