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BEYOND LOCAL: 'I think it’s stupid': Long-time teacher celebrates 100th birthday with humour

BEYOND LOCAL: 'I think it’s stupid': Long-time teacher celebrates 100th birthday with humour

'I’m so glad people would bother for little old me': Well-wishers gather at long-term care home Saturday to celebrate soon-to-be centenarian Kay McMaster
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QMJHL roundup: Tourigny helps Cataractes roll past Remparts 5-1

QUÉBEC — Captain Jordan Tourigny had a goal and assist, Julien Lanthier and Louis-Philippe Fontaine each had two assists, and the visiting Shawinigan Cataractes defeated the Quebec Remparts 5-1 in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Satur
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Jacobs tops Carruthers in Page playoff 3-4 game to reach semifinal at Montana's Brier

Jacobs tops Carruthers in Page playoff 3-4 game to reach semifinal at Montana's Brier

KELOWNA, B.C. — When veteran skip Brad Jacobs joined his new teammates last spring, one of their main goals was to get to the final Sunday at the Montana's Brier. Mission accomplished for the Alberta foursome.
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Brampton religious leader charged after alleged sexual assault during ceremony

Brampton religious leader charged after alleged sexual assault during ceremony

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A religious leader in Brampton, Ont., has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a female during a religious ceremony. Peel police say a 69-year-old man from Brampton was charged Friday with one count of sexual assault.
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Premier hopes identification of remains found at landfill helps family move forward

Premier hopes identification of remains found at landfill helps family move forward

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's premier says he has spoken with the family of an Indigenous woman murdered by a serial killer, and he hopes the confirmation that her remains have been found during a search at a Winnipeg landfill helps them move forward.
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Morikawa birdies final hole for one shot lead at Bay Hill, Canada's Conners two shots back

Morikawa birdies final hole for one shot lead at Bay Hill, Canada's Conners two shots back

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Collin Morikawa left Bay Hill a year ago with an 80 on his scorecard and a second straight missed cut in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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Famed local hockey player 'was like our own Gordie Howe'

Famed local hockey player 'was like our own Gordie Howe'

Hockey great Morley Spiker was 'doing the Gretzky move before Gretzky,' relative recalls of man who would become a mainstay in the region's hockey scene for nearly five decades
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Venezuelan parents watch from home as their son is laid to rest in Texas after drowning

Venezuelan parents watch from home as their son is laid to rest in Texas after drowning

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — The cries of Liliana Olivero watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground.
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Canadian canola farmers to feel impact from damaging Chinese tariffs

Canadian canola farmers to feel impact from damaging Chinese tariffs

OTTAWA — Canadian farmers could take a big hit from China's sudden retaliatory tariffs that take aim at canola, pork and other food commodities.
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Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt

Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Take the season's biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium.
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