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Point, Stamkos score in shootout as Lightning beat Senators
Miss America Organization loses TV partner over emails
FILE- In this Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, Sam Haskell, left, CEO of Miss America Organization, speaks during Miss America Pageant arrival ceremonies in Atlantic City, N.J. On Thursday Dec. 21, 2017, the Huffington Post published emails it obtained that show Haskell and others from the Miss America Organization commenting harshly on past winners' appearance, intellect and sex lives. Dick Clark Productions, the pageant's TV production partner, severed ties with the Miss America Organization over the emails, which it termed "appalling." (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
The Latest: Senate paid nearly $1.5M in harassment claims
Birthday boy Charlie McAvoy scores shootout winner as Bruins top Jets
Boston Bruins’ Charlie McAvoy celebrates with Zdeno Chara after scoring the game winning goal against the Winnipeg Jets at TD Garden in Boston, on Dec. 21, 2017.
Birthday boy McAvoy sends Bruins past Jets in shootout
Boston Bruins' Charlie McAvoy (73) celebrates with teammates after scoring the winning goal in a shootout during an NHL hockey game against the Winnipeg Jets in Boston, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The Bruins won 2-1. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
DeRozan has career night as Raptors rally to beat 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons gets the ball away from Toronto Raptors' DeMar DeRozan on Thursday night.
DeRozan scores 45 points, Raptors rally to beat 76ers
Kia Nurse brings UConn home for the holidays
Kia Nurse of the University of Connecticut Huskies drives to the basket against dribbles as Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale, right, on Dec. 3, 2017, in Hartford, Conn.
Canadian Steve Nash listed among first-year hall-of-fame candidates
Los Angeles Lakers' Steve Nash during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, on Oct. 29, 2013.
The Latest: Nestle says it will follow California water laws
June Rowlands, Toronto’s first female mayor, dies at 93
June Rowlands celebrates her election victory as the first female mayor of the city of Toronto, on Nov. 12, 1991.
June Rowlands, Toronto's first female mayor, dies at the age of 93
The first female mayor of Toronto has died. June Rowlands was 93. Her son Bruce Rowlands says his mother died on Thursday night at a long-term care facility. Rowlands celebrates her election victory as the first female mayor of the city of Toronto, in Toronto on November 12, 1991. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hans Deryk
B.C. family of Syrian refugees to spend first Christmas together in nearly a decade
Merell Awad, left, with her mother Samira, and sisters Rania and Huda at home in Campbell River, B.C., on Dec. 20, 2017.
Toronto’s new subway stations: Design’s all right but location feels wrong
A bus stops at Toronto’s Pioneer Village subway station on Thursday. The station was designed by Will Alsop, the English architect who designed OCAD University’s Sharp Centre for Design.
20 questions with Chan Hon Goh on fear, happiness and her No. 1 ‘restaurant’
Chan Hon Goh, director of Vancouver’s Goh Ballet Academy, says she is ‘happiest when personal life and work life are equally fulfilled.’
Mourners of Barry and Honey Sherman try to make sense of the irrational
Jonathon Sherman speaks about his parents as mourners attend the memorial service for Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto on Dec. 21, 2017.
Accounts of violence against Rohingya Muslims must be documented: Bob Rae
Bob Rae, special envoy to Myanmar, holds a press conference in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Oct. 23, 2017.
Mexico enacts military policing law over rights objections
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, cadets attend a graduation ceremony at the Military Academy, in Mexico City. Mexico's Senate approved a law Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, that would give the military legal justification to act as police, despite objections from human rights groups. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
A look at Eric Schmidt’s 17 years with Google and Alphabet
Alphabet's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt looks on during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 1, 2017.
Japan Cabinet OKs record $46 bln defence budget
FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2017, file image provided by the North Korean government, what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15, a "significantly more" powerful, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, is launched in North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approved Japan's biggest 5.19 trillion yen ($46 billion) defense budget on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, to bolster ballistic missile defense capability amid escalating threats from North Korea.Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
Chicago police arrest dozens selling drugs, guns on Facebook
Anthony Riccio, chief of the Chicago Police Department's organized crime unit, describes an investigation into sales of drugs and guns in an invitation-only group on Facebook during a news conference at Chicago Police Department headquarters Thursday, Dec. 21 2017, in Chicago. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via AP)
California court exposes drug makers to additional liability
Former Scouts Canada troop leader sentenced for shooting scout with pellet gun
RIP, Pipe Man: Muskoka survey sinks plastic-tube tribute to Tom Thomson
Pipe Man, the six-metre-high, black-plastic pipe with a silhouette of Thomson, will join a long list of public art that seemed like a good idea at the time.
10 Things to Know for Friday
In this Dec. 14, 2017 photo a snowy owl stares prior being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Mass. The owl is one of 14 trapped so far this winter at Boston's Logan Airport and moved to the beach on Cape Cod Bay. The large white raptors from the Arctic have descended on the northern U.S. in huge numbers in recent weeks, giving researchers opportunities to study them. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The Latest: Feinstein, Harris vote no on spending bill
Groom in rare cross-border wedding is a drug smuggler
In this Nov. 18, 2017, photo, Evelia Reyes looks into the United States at Friendship Park, part of Border Field State Park, through the border fence from the Mexico side, before getting married to Brian Houston at the "Door of Hope," part of the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. A U.S. citizen, forbidden to enter Mexico, met and wed the love of his life in a brief moment when the gate separating the two countries was opened. Now it turns out the groom is a convicted drug smuggler and border agents are furious that he passed a federal background check and was approved for the "Door of Hope." (Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
In India, some fear lawmakers are stoking anti-Muslim fervour
FILE - In this April 10, 2016, file photo, members of Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or National Volunteer Organization, stand during Varsh Pratipada festival, the Hindu New Year in Ahmadabad, India. A series of incidents this fall have reinforced fears that anti-Muslim sentiment has hardened in India in the three years since a right-wing Hindu nationalist party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki,file)
Senate roll call vote on bill keeping government open
Remains found at Grand Canyon thought to be California hiker
Coroner: Gunfire killed all 58 victims in Las Vegas shooting
FILE - This undated photo provided by Eric Paddock shows his brother, Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock. On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest festival killing dozens and wounding hundreds. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg told The Associated Press on Thursday, Dec. 21, that Paddock, died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the mouth, and that was Paddock's only wound. His death was ruled a suicide. (Courtesy of Eric Paddock via AP, File)
Australia ends airstrike operations in Iraq and Syria
Correction: Boys Ranch-Abuse Allegations story
How states are coping with uncertainty of kids' health money
A look at Eric Schmidt's 17 years with Google and Alphabet
Still no verdict at US trial of Turkish banker
In this court room drawing, defendant Mehmet Atilla, center, reviews documents during the second day of jury deliberations in his corruption trial, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 in New York. The Turkish banker is accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions and launder billions of dollars in oil revenue. At left is defense attorney Victor Rocco and defense attorney Cathy Fleming is at right. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
The Latest: Raul Castro to stay Cuba's president until April
FILE - In this May 1, 2017 file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro watches the Mayday march at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Cuba's National Assembly has extended its term by two months, until April 2018, a signal that Raul Castro will remain in the presidency longer than previously announced. Castro had said that he expected to leave the presidency in February. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)
Students use 3-D printer to build prosthetic arm for boy
Clarification: Electrocution Lawsuit-Florida story
On John Horgan’s softwood trip, worries about absence during B.C. wildfires
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with B.C. Premier John Horgan in his office on Parliament Hill on July 25, 2017.
The Latest: Trump visits wounded service members at hospital
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office as he leaves the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Sobeys assails Loblaw for throwing it ‘under the bus’ in bread probe
Michael Medline (pictured), CEO of Sobeys, has asked Galen G. Weston, CEO of Loblaw, for a public and immediate retraction of his implication that Sobeys conducted itself in the same manner as Loblaw and its parent George Weston Ltd. in price-fixing.
Bundys looking to clear charges, not start next land fight
The Latest: Lawyer for hospital gunman says shootings tragic
Health officials advise eastern Canada to avoid romaine lettuce due to E. coli outbreak
Public health officials are advising people in eastern Canada to consider avoiding romaine lettuce because of an E. coli outbreak that is linked to one death and 40 illnesses.
London, Ont., police officer pleads guilty to assault charge
USOC CEO apologizes, says he was unaware of Nassar abuse
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2013 file photo McKayla Maroney smiles after competing on the floor exercise during the U.S. women's national gymnastics championships in Hartford, Conn. Maroney says the group that trains U.S. Olympic gymnasts forced her to sign a confidential settlement to keep allegations of sexual abuse by the team's doctor secret. Maroney filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Los Angeles, against the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics. The suit also seeks damages from Michigan State University, where the team's doctor, Larry Nassar, worked for decades. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola,File)
Los Angeles Zoo euthanizes herd of threatened goats
This September 2010 photo provided by the Los Angeles Zoo shows a female Nubian Ibex goat. The Los Angeles Zoo has euthanized its entire herd of threatened Nubian ibex goats because they were identified as the source of an infectious and incurable strain of herpes. The zoo said Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, that they made the “difficult yet responsible decision” to euthanize the mountain goats last month because of malignant catarrhal fever. The female was among those euthanized. (Tad Motoyama/Los Angeles Zoo via AP)
Health authorities advise eastern Canadian consumers to avoid romaine lettuce
GOP set to move on from Russia in 2018; Democrats keep focus
FILE - In this June 7, 2017, file photo, FBI acting director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans and Democrats are scrambling in the final days of 2017 to establish an enduring narrative on multiple Russia investigations and the integrity of the investigators. On Dec. 21, Republicans brought the topic back to Clinton as two committees began conducting interviews in a new investigation of the FBI and its 2016 inquiry into Clinton’s email server. The House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees spent hours behind closed doors with McCabe, who was involved in that probe. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Washington expands lawsuit against Comcast over service plan
FILE- In this Nov. 28, 2017, file photo, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference in Seattle. The state of Washington announced Thursday, Dec. 21, that it is expanding a lawsuit against cable and internet provider Comcast and accusing the company of discarding recorded customer service calls that the attorney general claims is evidence of the company's alleged deceptive sales practices. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Man charged, 2 others sought in death of woman in Richmond Hill, Ont., home
UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea
Visitors, with barbed wire seen at left, tour the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. South Korean soldiers fired 20 warning machine gun rounds Thursday, turning back North Korean soldiers apparently pursuing a comrade who had earlier dashed across the rivals' shared border, officials said. It is the fourth time this year a North Korean soldier has defected across the world's most heavily armed border. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
US official says rape and abortion both forms of violence
FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2017, photo, activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to obtain an abortion, outside of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. In a document filed Thursday, Dec. 21, Scott Lloyd, the government official in charge of the agency that shelters unaccompanied immigrant children, compares abortion to rape. Lloyd heads the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which faces an ongoing lawsuit over its refusal to allow teens in its care to have abortions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite File)
Ford CEO apologizes for harassment cases at Chicago plant
Nestle warned it lacks rights to some California water
FILE - In this July 16, 2002, file photo, shows the warehousing area of the Arrowhead Water Bottling plant is part of the 383,000 square foot structure in Cabazon, Calif. Nestle, which sells Arrowhead bottled water, may have to stop taking millions of gallons of water from Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest because state regulators concluded it lacks valid permits. The State Water Resources Control Board notified the company on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, that an investigation concluded it doesn't have proper rights to pipe about three-quarters of the water it currently withdraws for bottling. (Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun, via AP File)
Senate says $1.5 million paid over 20 years for 'harassment'
Streetwise newsletter: Energy analyst departs CIBC; RBC prepares launch of robo-adviser
Over the past 10 years, Bay Street’s best-rated stocks failed to beat the S&P/TSX composite index.
California population grows by 300K, nearing 40 million
Rogers, Telus, BCE face renewed questions over pricing
Canada’s Big Three carriers have ended promotional wireless data deals that seemed too good to be true.
Survivors of Mexico bus crash heading home, 2 victims ID'd
Man convicted of helping plot Texas attack files appeal
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department shows Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem. The lawyer for the Phoenix man convicted of helping two Islamic State followers in a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, argued in an appeal Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, that prosecutors withheld evidence during his trial, including the fact that an undercover FBI agent was at the scene just before the two attackers opened fire outside the anti-Islam event. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Department via AP, File)
Hall of Famer Moon denies allegations in harassment lawsuit
Teen's tweet leads to $190K donation for Tennessee hospital
House Roll Call: Spending Bill
Bell’s call to loosen Cancon rules is self-serving, but it may have a point
Konrad Yakabuski
Quebec female teacher arrested for alleged sex acts with students
Ex-police chief accused of hate crime pleads not guilty
The Latest: Dutoit withdraws from The Cleveland Orchestra
FILE - In this June 19, 2003 file photo, conductor Charles Dutoit performs with NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, Japan. Four women have accused Dutoit of sexual misconduct that allegedly occurred on the sidelines of rehearsals or performances with some of America's great orchestras. The 81-year-old is the artistic director and principal conductor at London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. (Kyodo News via AP)
Schmidt resigning as exec chair at Google parent Alphabet
FILE- In this March 8, 2016, file photo, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet speaks during a press conference ahead of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. Schmidt is stepping down as the executive chairman of Google parent Alphabet in January 2018. The company says he will become a technical adviser and will continue to sit on the board. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Long-term deal for children's health again eludes Congress
Homeland Security suspending bioterror testing in Oklahoma
The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
People console each other at a memorial service for Apotex billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman in Mississauga, Ontario on Thursday, December 21, 2017. Seventy-five-year-old Barry Sherman and his 70-year-old wife Honey were found dead in their Toronto home last week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
CN Rail moves ahead with bitumen pellet project amid pipeline shortage
CN railway and InnoTech display their new technology that turns heavy oil, bitumen, into floating, waterproof tablets the size of a bar of soap that can be shipped by train.
It's a girl! Baby delivered outside Boston police station
NFL says it is not pressuring Panthers owner to sell team
FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014 file photo, Carolina Panthers' owner, Jerry Richardson looks on before an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Charlotte, N.C. The NFL made it clear Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 it isn’t forcing Panthers owner Jerry Richardson to sell the team while he is under investigation for sexual and racial misconduct in the workplace. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)
Woman, 91, charged after crash with OPP cruiser in Campbellford, Ont.
Six Canadians on National Women's Soccer League's draft-eligible list
Tennessee: Lone pilot dead after small plane crash near home
Evening Update newsletter: Jerusalem, Barry and Honey Sherman, Trudeau-ethics
People embrace and console each other before the start a memorial service for Apotex billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman in Mississauga, Ontario on Thursday, December 21, 2017.
The truth about whether CPP will be there for you in retirement
Are you ready to retire?
Canadian threat report highlights rise in simple but deadly terror attacks
Police investigate the scene where a car crashed into a roadblock in Edmonton on September 30, 2017. Public Safety Canada warns that extremists are increasingly carrying out simple but deadly attacks using knives and vehicles. In its annual public report on the terrorist threat to Canada, the department notes such unsophisticated but "high-impact" assaults took place recently in Edmonton, where five people were injured, and in New York, killing eight people and injuring several more. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
How major US stock indexes fared on Thursday
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Senate GOP leader skeptical about another run at health law
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., arrives to sign the final version of the GOP tax bill during an enrollment ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Review: Despite missteps that are far from small, Downsizing is a giant effort
Kristen Wiig, Matt Damon, Maribeth Monroe and Jason Sudeikis in Downsizing.
Laeticia Amihere: Canada’s next basketball star
Laeticia Amihere poses for a portrait during Canada Basketball camp at Humber College in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2017.
Worried about the housing market? This is the chart to watch
Statistics Canada reported retail sales data for October on Thursday, and the results were healthy, indicating a 6.7-per-cent year-over-year increase.
retail spending
Doctor accused in deaths of 5 patients from opioid overdoses
Congressional leaders to award Bob Dole top civilian honour
The Latest: Anchorage police say officer shot armed man
Papa John's founder exiting as CEO weeks after NFL comments
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Papa John’s founder and CEO John Schnatter attends a meeting in Louisville, Ky. Schnatter, who appears on the chain’s commercials and pizza boxes, will leave the CEO role in January 2018, weeks after he publicly criticized NFL leadership for the ongoing national anthem protests by football players. He will be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Steve Ritchie on Jan. 1. Schnatter, who is the company’s biggest shareholder, will stay on as chairman. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)
Accenture and Embraer jump on Wall Street while PG&E slumps
Correction: Hotel Review-Lawsuit story
Judge tosses out lawsuit against Trump over business ties
FILE- In this Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, the Trump International Hotel in Washington is shown. On Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, a New York judge has rejected a lawsuit by restaurant workers, a hotel event booker and a watchdog group who say President Donald Trump has business conflicts that violate the Constitution. The lawsuit was rejected by federal Judge George Daniels, who says the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Philly carriage horse company closes, gives animals to city
SEC: ex-Florida firm defrauded thousands in $1.2B scheme
The Latest: Pence says 'real progress' in war in Afghanistan
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walks past an honor guard with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, second from right, and Afghan CEO Abdullah Abdullah, third from right, upon arrival at the President Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Ottawa Fury FC name Julian de Guzman GM, Nikola Popovic head coach
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