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Column: League gets it right by distancing themselves from Don Cherry
The Western Hockey League did a great job at not allowing the whole Don Cherry controversy to ruin a good cause. After running the WHL Suits Up with Don Cherry to Promote Organ Donation for two years ...
Jan 16, 2020 Last years' Raiders in Brett Leason and Brayden Pachal swarm Warriors forward Tristan Langin during last year's WHL Suits Up with Don Cherry night. (Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff)

Canada looks to add to valuable FIFA ranking points in friendly against Iceland
Two wins, eight goals but just 2.26 ranking points. A pair of comfortable 4-1 victories over No. 162 Barbados has given Canada confidence but done little to move the needle when it come...
Jan 16, 2020

The hardscrabble story behind Canadian wrestling legend Rocky 'Soulman' Johnson
HALIFAX - Growing up in northern Nova Scotia in the 1950s, Wayde Bowles once spent 25 cents to watch wrestlers like "The Beast" compete at the Bailey Arena in Amherst. "It's hard to say exac...
Jan 16, 2020

Montreal Canadiens prospect Cam Hillis having bounce-back season with OHL Storm
Guelph Storm forward Cam Hillis needed a few games at the beginning of this year's Ontario Hockey League season to get back up to speed after all the time he spent off the ice rehabilitating...
Jan 16, 2020

Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump
HOUSTON - Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday. Abbott's announ...
Jan 16, 2020

Would-be Conservative leadership contenders grilled on their pasts
OTTAWA - Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's past became a problem during the 2019 federal election, and those vying to replace him will be grilled about theirs. A copy of the 2020 leade...
Jan 16, 2020

Jewish group seeks removal of anti-Semite's name from Quebec street, park
MONTREAL - A man who sought to prevent Jewish people from ever buying his land should lose the honour of having a street and park named after him, a Jewish advocacy group said Tuesday in a public...
Jan 16, 2020

British couple to attempt record-breaking transatlantic balloon flight from N.B.
FREDERICTON - A British couple is hoping to break through a glass ceiling with a balloon flight from Canada to Europe this summer. If the trip is successful, Deborah Day would become the first woman i...
Jan 16, 2020

Federal health minister says too early for broad drug decriminalization
VANCOUVER - Canada's health minister says talk about decriminalizing drugs to deal with the country's ongoing opioids crisis is premature until people have enough help to...
Jan 16, 2020

GDI award recipient encourages women in trades
Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research (GDI), announced it will induct 25 individuals into the Order of Gabriel Dumont at GDI's upcoming 40th Anniversary Cultural and Educatio...
Jan 16, 2020 Dayna GeorgesĀ (submitted photo/Dayna Georges)