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Annaheim looking to be voted as Saskatchewan's coldest rink
Who has the coldest rink in Saskatchewan?That's a question being posed to Twitter users by battlefordsNOW reporter Brady Lang.After many nominations and votes over the past few days, the town of Annah...
Feb 14, 2019
Look south: Study finds comparisons for future climate of U.S., Canadian cities
Wondering what your city's climate will be like in a few decades? Look south - about 1,000 kilometres south, says an unusual new study published Tuesday. That's the average distance between 540 cities...
Feb 14, 2019
New details in U.S. woman's appeal of sentence in Valentine's Day plot
HALIFAX - New court documents reveal details of how one of the masterminds of a foiled plot to attack a Halifax mall on Valentine's Day plans to appeal her life sentence. Lindsay Souvannarath is ...
Feb 14, 2019
Call me by my new name: Balkan nation is North Macedonia now
Enter North Macedonia. The small Balkan country of Macedonia officially changed its name Tuesday by adding a geographic designation that ends a decades-old dispute with neighbouring Greece and secures...
Feb 14, 2019
Jeremy Lin does his homework before making successful Raptors debut
TORONTO - Jeremy Lin came prepared for the Raptors. The nine-year-veteran did his homework in advance of his Toronto debut Wednesday night against the Washington Wizards. It showed in the un...
Feb 14, 2019
Dennis Oland murder trial: Cellular expert delivers blow to defence
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - An expert on cellphone towers says the chances are "very small" that Richard Oland's cell phone was still in his Saint John office when it received a final text message on the day t...
Feb 14, 2019
Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman convicted
NEW YORK - Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style ...
Feb 14, 2019
United We Roll convoy hits the road to Ottawa
Over 150 vehicles left Red Deer bound for Ottawa Thursday morning in their bid to gain support for the oil and gas industry from the federal government.The United We Roll, Official Convoy for Canada l...
Feb 14, 2019
Committee chair says probe of Wilson-Raybould affair a possibility
OTTAWA - The Liberal chair of the House of Commons justice committee is open to probing whether the Prime Minister's Office tried to influence the former justice minister not to proceed...
Feb 14, 2019
Poundmaker planning to establish new cultural museum
It may be a long way off but Milton Tootoosis imagines himself waking up one day to see a beautiful new landmark of Poundmaker Cree Nation's past created by the Poundmaker people, so the true history ...
Feb 14, 2019