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Changes proposed for Canadian junior curlers get petition pushback
Upcoming changes to the Canadian junior curling championships are facing resistance as some young curlers lament losing a year of eligibility to play in it. Curling Canada announced&nbs...
Feb 13, 2019
National youth policy a matter of 'managing expectations'
OTTAWA - Three years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised a national youth policy, the federal government is still trying to determine what it should include. Trudeau appointed himself the min...
Feb 13, 2019
'Linsanity' revisited - A look at Jeremy Lin's brief time as a basketball phenomenon
TORONTO - For at least part of one season, Jeremy Lin might have been the most popular player in the NBA. Starting the 2011-12 campaign as a deep bench player sleeping on his brother's couch, he led a...
Feb 13, 2019
FEMA head Brock Long, investigated over vehicle use, resigns
WASHINGTON - The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency resigned Wednesday after a two-year tenure in which he managed the response to historic wildfires and major hurricanes but was dogged b...
Feb 13, 2019
Lawyer says rapper 21 Savage freed from immigration custody
OCILLA, Ga. - A lawyer for 21 Savage says the Grammy-nominated rapper has been released from an immigration detention centre in south Georgia. Immigration lawyer Tia Smith said in an email that the ra...
Feb 13, 2019
Minister of Sport hints at big changes for handling of abuse cases
TORONTO - There could be a major shift in the way sexual abuse and harassment cases are handled in Canadian amateur sport. Kirsty Duncan, Canada's Minister of Science and Sport, hinted Monday tha...
Feb 13, 2019
Observers 'gobsmacked' at new revelation about lost QuadrigaCX currency
HALIFAX - The revelation that the embattled QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange recently lost track of more than $460,000 in crypto-coins has left some industry observers reeling with di...
Feb 13, 2019
As women celebrate historic Congress, consensus is the hardest roads lie ahead
WASHINGTON - Just up Pennsylvania Avenue from Capitol Hill, where a roof-raising posse of congresswomen wearing white upstaged Donald Trump during last week's state of the union, a drizzle-s...
Feb 13, 2019
CBC's Joe Schlesinger remembered for compassionate reporting, esteemed career
TORONTO - Longtime CBC foreign correspondent Joe Schlesinger, who spent decades covering war zones and global events that shaped history, has died after a lengthy illness. A spokesman f...
Feb 13, 2019
Privacy commissioner finds doctors snooped in Humboldt Broncos patient records
REGINA - Saskatchewan's privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly...
Feb 13, 2019