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Heat records falling twice as often as cold ones, AP finds
Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows. The AP loo...
Mar 19, 2019
Raptors Uprising to face old foe in 2019 season opener of NBA 2K League
TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC will renew acquaintances with Cavs Legion GC, the team that knocked it out of the 2018 playoffs, in its 2019 NBA 2K League season opener April 11. Raptors Uprising opened...
Mar 19, 2019
October dates set for preliminary hearing in shipbuilding secrets case
OTTAWA - A preliminary hearing is set for October in the case of a public servant accused of leaking cabinet secrets about a $700-million naval contract. Matthew Matchett, a suspended Public Service a...
Mar 19, 2019
Saskatchewan city to take another look at rejected group home proposal
WEYBURN, Canada - A Saskatchewan city council that voted against building a group home for disabled adults in an upscale neighbourhood is reconsidering the application. A statement from Weyburn’...
Mar 19, 2019
Drugs, guns and impaired driver discovered by Fort St. John RCMP
A Taylor B.C. man has been charged with firearms and drug offences, as well as impaired driving, following an RCMP search of a vehicle in Fort St. John. Just before 7 a.m. Monday, police received a re...
Mar 19, 2019
AP source: Trout, Angels close to record $432M, 12-year deal
Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history, a person familiar wi...
Mar 19, 2019
Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after coverup
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to pol...
Mar 19, 2019
RCMP say disappearance of B.C. cowboy Ben Tyner 'may involve criminality'
SURREY, B.C. - The case of a rancher who has been missing in British Columbia since January is being treated as a suspicious disappearance by the RCMP. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says members of the southea...
Mar 19, 2019
Fought to unite Alberta conservatives: Former MP Kenney ready to run for premier
EDMONTON - Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney finally gets his title shot. It's not a chance the former federal Conservative cabinet minister saw coming until he put together a plan in the summer ...
Mar 19, 2019
Kazakhstan's president to step down after 30 years in power
MOSCOW - President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over t...
Mar 19, 2019