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Peck moves up Iditarod standings
Grande Prairie musher Aaron Peck is climbing up the standings list at the Iditarod sled dog race. Peck has moved up to 17th from 23rd. He arrived at the Iditarod checkpoint, the halfway point of the r...
Mar 08, 2019

Trudeau apologizes for government's past mistreatment of Inuit with TB
IQALUIT, Nunavut - James Eetoolook is a 72-year-old tuberculosis survivor among a family of survivors. He and seven of his relatives were stricken with TB, including his mother, sisters and brother, w...
Mar 08, 2019

NHL GMs say trade deadline arms race in the Western Conference no surprise
Kevin Cheveldayoff joked the trade deadline was “just another Monday.” It wasn’t. The point the Winnipeg Jets general manager was attempting to make, however, was nothing comes easy ...
Mar 08, 2019

Norway's $1 trillion fund to dump oil and gas shares
STAVANGER, Norway - Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund, the biggest of its kind in the world, will begin dumping shares in oil and gas companies, but stopped short of barring major producers like ...
Mar 08, 2019
US adds just 20K jobs; unemployment dips to 3.8 pct.
WASHINGTON - Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a half. The slowdown in hiring, though, might have been depressed b...
Mar 08, 2019

Western Ontario's football program placing an emphasis on player safety
Winning is important to longtime football coach Greg Marshall, but not at the expense of player safety. Marshall has won plenty in the game. He captured the 1980 Hec Crighton Trophy as a running back ...
Mar 08, 2019
Player safety is now a top priority in Canadian amateur football circles
TORONTO - He has played Canadian university football and coached the game, but Todd Smith is waiting before he lets his two sons get on the field. “I’m not in a rush to put my kids into fo...
Mar 08, 2019
'It's all I know:' Canadian driver Robert Wickens says he will return to racing
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Robert Wickens says he will be in a race car again, saying it’s “all I know.” Sitting in a wheelchair and looking to be in good spirits, the Canadian driver ta...
Mar 08, 2019

Gilbert Rozon sex crime hearing draws protesters but accused doesn't show
MONTREAL - Protesters gathered outside the Montreal courthouse today for a scheduled appearance by Gilbert Rozon on sex crime charges, but the Just for Laughs founder never showed, choosing to be repr...
Mar 08, 2019

Bill Shine resigns White House communications post
WASHINGTON - Former Fox News executive Bill Shine has resigned as White House communications director and has joined President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign as a senior adviser. White Hous...
Mar 08, 2019