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Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas has relatively uneventful trade deadline day
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas resisted the temptation to make significant changes at the NHL trade deadline. He's hoping adversity makes his slumping team stronger. The Leafs, co...
Feb 26, 2020

Worried Democrats rush to slow front-runner Sanders
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Worried Democrats on Monday intensified their assault against the party's presidential front-runner, Bernie Sanders, as the Vermont senator marched toward South Carolina's w...
Feb 26, 2020

'A new day': Harvey Weinstein convicted, led away in cuffs
NEW YORK - Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault against two women and led off to prison in handcuffs Monday in what his foes hailed as a landmark moment ...
Feb 26, 2020

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya apologizes for Twin Towers comment
UFC middleweight champion Israel (The Last Stylebender) Adesanya has apologized for saying he will make UFC 248 challenger Yoel (Soldier of God) Romero "crumble like the Twin Towers." The Nigerian-bor...
Feb 26, 2020

Laurie Anderson among new arts academy inductees
NEW YORK - Like many incoming members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Laurie Anderson didn't know a lot about the venerable honour society until she was asked to join it. "I had only a ha...
Feb 26, 2020

CAAWS rebrands with new name - Canadian Women & Sport - and new logo
TORONTO - Allison Sandmeyer-Graves believes the appetite for information about women in sport is at an all-time high. The opportunity to make an impact is huge. And so with an aim of being m...
Feb 26, 2020

Kovalchuk happy to join powerful Caps, but doesn't rule out return to Habs
Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin felt Ilya Kovalchuk earned the right to help choose his next destination. With multiple teams interested in Kovalchuk's services, Bergevin wanted to ma...
Feb 26, 2020

NDP table legislation to create universal pharmacare program, seek Liberal backing
OTTAWA - The NDP have tabled a new bill that calls for a universal pharmacare plan in Canada. The party, which has been promising the legislation for some time, says its proposal is based on the ...
Feb 26, 2020

Doctor details how Lionel Desmond won approval to get a gun despite concerns
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A New Brunswick doctor who uses cannabis to treat veterans with PTSD says Lionel Desmond wasn't suicidal and showed no sign he was a threat to others in Februar...
Feb 26, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern): ___ 10:45 a.m. ET Ontario Provincial Police say fires at a second protest...
Feb 26, 2020