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Calgary's Jaclyn Lee ready for first LPGA Tour event as a professional
It took weeks for Jaclyn Lee to really absorb that she had become a professional golfer. The Canadian announced she was joining the LPGA Tour on Dec. 7 but it wasn't until classes at Ohio State Univer...
Feb 04, 2019
'Glass' stays at No. 1, while 'Miss Bala' opens in third
LOS ANGELES - With the distraction of the Super Bowl, freezing temperatures affecting large portions of North America and only one big new release in theatres in "Miss Bala," movie going audiences lar...
Feb 04, 2019
Alfonso Cuaron wins Directors Guild award for 'Roma'
LOS ANGELES - "Roma" director Alfonso Cuaron has won the top honour from the Directors Guild of America and solidified his spot as the Oscar front-runner. Cuaron won out over Spike Lee for "BlacKkKlan...
Feb 04, 2019
Super Bowl ad winners: Bud Light, Amazon
NEW YORK - This year some of the Super Bowl ads that grabbed the greatest buzz were surprises, like Bud Light's "Game of Thrones" teaser. Other crowd-pleasers focused on humour, like Amazon's take on ...
Feb 04, 2019
Super Bowl ad winners: Bud Light, Amazon
NEW YORK - This year some of the Super Bowl ads that grabbed the greatest buzz were surprises, like Bud Light's "Game of Thrones" teaser. Other crowd-pleasers focused on humour, like Amazon's take on ...
Feb 04, 2019
Wiarton Willie predicts early spring; Shubenacadie Sam says there's more winter to come
There are conflicting predictions from Canada's two most famous forecasting groundhogs, with Wiarton Willie heralding an early spring while Shubenacadie Sam claims there will be six more weeks of...
Feb 04, 2019
Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday. Sal...
Feb 04, 2019
Iran's revolutionaries have mixed feelings, 40 years later
TEHRAN, Iran - Forty years after he defected from the shah's Imperial Guard to join the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Reza Tajik, like many Iranians from that time, looks back wistfully at the youthful...
Feb 04, 2019
Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday. Sal...
Feb 04, 2019
Some lofty goals from 2018 State of Union speech still unmet
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump whiffed on some lofty goals that he laid out in last year's State of the Union address, most notably his call for an overhaul of immigration laws and a "great wall ...
Feb 04, 2019