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South Korea's Gim beats Italy's Constantini at world women's curling championship
SYDNEY, N.S. - South Korea's Eunji Gim defeated Italy's Stefania Constantini 6-3 on Sunday to win bronze at the world women's curling championship. Gim made a double-takeout to score three points in t...
Mar 24, 2024
Anti-authority narratives could tear 'fabric of society,' intelligence report warns
Threats against politicians have become "increasingly normalized" due to extremist narratives prompted by personal grievances and fuelled by misinformation or deliberate lies, warns a newly released i...
Mar 24, 2024

Alberta scientists band together to shift climate change focus to health impacts
EDMONTON - Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper. "Climate change impacts everything we care about," she ...
Mar 24, 2024

Brazil's federal police arrest men suspected of ordering 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil's federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of so...
Mar 24, 2024

Two daughters, two parents, and echoes of a murder that rocked Indigenous activism
VANCOUVER - In Halifax, Denise Pictou Maloney says the trauma and grief from the 1975 murder of her mother, Indigenous activist Anna Mae Aqaush, has never dimmed. Pictou Maloney was nine when she last...
Mar 24, 2024

Commitment to defence leads North Stars to Game 2 win
For the second time in as many nights, the Battlefords North Stars held Melville to just a single goal Saturday, to take a down to the wire 2-1 win in Game 2 of their first round playoff series, in No...
Mar 24, 2024

Worldwide support pours in for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after shocking cancer reveal
LONDON (AP) - Support poured in from around the world Saturday for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after she revealed in a candid video message that she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer following ma...
Mar 24, 2024

Raiders shut out in Saskatoon as regular season winds down
The Prince Albert Raiders didn't really have an answer for the Saskatoon Blades this weekend.After losing 5-1 to their arch-rivals on home ice on Friday night, it was more of the same Saturday as the ...
Mar 24, 2024

Hoglander scores twice as Vancouver Canucks double up Calgary Flames 4-2
VANCOUVER - Nils Hoglander scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks doused the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Saturday. J.T. Miller recorded his team-leading 34th goal of the season, Elias Lindholm scored into a...
Mar 23, 2024

Wizards win two in a row, hand Raptors 10th straight loss
WASHINGTON (AP) - Deni Avdija scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Kyle Kuzma made some big baskets down the stretch to compensate for a rough shooting performance and the Washington Wizards hand...
Mar 23, 2024