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Navy's aging warships getting harder to repair: Defence report
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Navy's maintenance facilities are having an increasingly tougher time fixing Canada's warships because of staff shortages, lack of spare parts and the age of the fleet, acc...
Mar 08, 2020

Peter MacKay says he regrets how 'stinking albatross' comment was viewed
REGINA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay says he regrets how some people interpreted his comment that current leader Andrew Scheer's socially conservative values were a "stinkin...
Mar 08, 2020

Oil price dives as OPEC, Russia fail to agree on output cut
VIENNA - OPEC and key ally Russia failed to agree Friday on a cut to oil production that would have contained the plunge in the price of crude caused by the new coronavirus outbreak's massive disrupti...
Mar 08, 2020

Canadian Brandon Bridge shifting focus from football to career in policing
Canadian quarterback Brandon Bridge has shifted his focus from football to police work. Peel Regional Police announced Friday the 27-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., is pursuing a ...
Mar 08, 2020

Dr. Bonnie Henry, virus hunter, healer, resolves to "break" COVID-19
VICTORIA - At the end of a stark news conference during which Dr. Bonnie Henry wiped tears as she broke the news confirming diagnosis of two cases of COVID-19 transmission at a North Vancouver lo...
Mar 08, 2020

Ohio State settling some suits over doc abuse; cost unclear
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some a...
Mar 08, 2020

Advocacy group formed by families who lost loved ones in semi-truck crashes
A new non-profit group advocating road safety has been formed nearly two years after a deadly hockey bus crash in rural Saskatchewan. Safer Roads Canada was founded by families, including so...
Mar 08, 2020

Conservatives call for spending cuts, waste reduction in federal budget
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling for spending cuts and waste reduction in the coming federal budget to unleash the economy and create jobs. The Tories say reckle...
Mar 08, 2020

Gushue beats Dunstone at Tim Hortons Brier to advance to final against Bottcher
KINGSTON, Ont. - Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue defeated Saskatchewan's Matt Dunstone 7-6 in Sunday's semifinal at the Tim Hortons Brier. Gushue had hammer in the 10th end and drew ...
Mar 08, 2020

Two new presumptive Coronavirus cases reported in Alberta
The province of Alberta has announced its third and fourth presumptive cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).One case is a male in his sixties who lives in the Edmonton Zone of Alberta Health Services...
Mar 08, 2020