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Eagles offer tickets to fan who feared missing Super Bowl
Stephen Harper says he was aware of allegations against Rick Dykstra
Stephen Harper leaves the stage after addressing supporters at an election night gathering in Calgary, Alta., on Oct. 19, 2015.
Former PM Harper says he was aware of allegations against Tory MP Dykstra
Stephen Harper speaks to the media in his office on Thursday June 26, 2014 in Ottawa. The former Conservative prime minister says he was aware of sexual assault allegations against a Conservative candidate in the 2015 federal election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
DeMar DeRozan finds three-point game in Raptors’ rout of Trail Blazers
Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan drives past Portland Trail Blazers' Pat Connaughton as Raptors' Jakob Poeltl looks on during a game on Feb. 2, 2018.
Senior PMO staffer resigns following investigation into alleged ‘inappropriate behaviour’
DeMar DeRozan scores 35 points to lead Raptors past Trail Blazers
Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan (right) shoots on Portland Trail Blazers Jusuf Nurkic during second half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday, February 2, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Pyeongchang 2018: Olympics offer promise of unity, but critics warn it may strengthen North Korea’s nuclear resolve
North Korean athletes arrive at the the Olympic Village in Gangneung, South Korea.
Man wanted in Brampton homicide found dead in Shelburne, Ont.
Dick Hibberd inspired generations of students to explore humanitarian work
Richard Anthony (Dick) Hibberd
California woman pleads not guilty in crash that killed man
This Nov. 18, 2016 photo provided by Red Aspen Photography shows Ryan Folsom with his wife Lauren and sons Cal and Grady posing for a portrait in San Antonio, Texas. Grace Elizabeth Ward, a Northern California woman who drove her car head-on into freeway traffic in an alleged suicide attempt, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Ryan Folsom, the driver she struck, authorities said Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Ward, 28, suffered a broken leg in the accident that killed Folsom on Interstate 5 on Jan. 7, 2018. Folsom, 29, was from Medford, Ore., and attended medical school in San Antonio, Texas. (Ashleigh Cropper/Red Aspen Photography via AP)
TV stations in Kenya remain off the air amid government’s shutdown
An empty studio of the NTV channel, which was shut down by the Kenyan government because of their coverage of opposition leader Raila Odinga's symbolic presidential inauguration.
In Canada, pipeline politics make for strange alliances
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is pictured in Edmonton in December, 2017.
Kerri Einarson, Jennifer Jones to meet in Page 1-2 playoff at Scotties
Members of the Wild Card team share a high-five during a match at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, B.C., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The sun is setting on the NFL, and fast
Cathal Kelly
BC Liberal candidate Todd Stone loses thousands of party memberships after investigation
MLA Todd Stone announces he will seek the leadership of the B.C. Liberal Party, in Surrey, B.C., on Oct.10, 2017.
After rough preseason, Toronto Wolfpack ready for next big challenge
Fans sing as the Toronto Wolfpack play the Whitehaven RLFC at Lamport Stadium in Toronto on Sept. 2, 2017.
Urena scores twice as Los Angeles FC ties Toronto 2-2 in pre-season play
BC Liberal leadership race: Who's running and what you need to know
BC Liberal Party leadership prospects have travelled the province, selling themselves in person and in debates.
On Montreal’s St. Catherine Street, a big dream is punctured – and for what?
Montreal City Council has decided to take a pass on a set of inflatable tunnels that would cover a roadway while it was being rebuilt to provide walking space.
Increasingly independent Senate injecting uncertainty into parliamentary process
The Senate chamber in Ottawa, seen in October, 2017, is today populated with members who may not agree amongst themselves on the nature of their work.
Canada at another rugby crossroads in bid for World Cup berth
Uruguay's Nicolas Freitas, right, tackles Canada's Taylor Paris during the second half of a World Cup qualifier match in Vancouver on Jan. 27, 2018.
Maduro picked as Venezuela's socialist party candidate
B.C. town-hall crowd derides Trudeau’s support for Trans Mountain pipeline
At the prime minister’s request, a heckler is removed from a building in Nanaimo, B.C., where the town hall meeting was held.by police officers during a public town hall with Justin Trudeau in Nanaimo, B.C., on Feb. 2, 2018.
Vancouver’s Oakridge mall gets a makeover – and a new lease on life
A product of the 1950s suburban mall boom, Oakridge is getting a 21st century facelift, including nine residential towers, community centre and music venue.
Toronto’s Church and Wellesley will always belong to LGBTQ people
John Ibbitson
Police commissioner downplays concerns of rampant corruption
For Quebec student, meeting Sidney Crosby ‘really was a life lesson’
Guillaume Ouimet told La Presse that Mr. Crosby parked his Jeep and, with his girlfriend, joined the 19-year-old junior player on the ice for more than an hour skating through some hockey drills.
Leafs racking up wins as Babcock finally embraces youth movement
Maple Leafs defenceman Justin Holl controls the puck while skating up ice against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday. Toronto won 4-0.
Chaotic times in Ontario politics prove it’s wise to expect the unexpected
Marcus Gee
Saskatoon’s Shift offers artful, Prairie-inspired cuisine
Shift takes elements of Canadian Prairie comfort food and transforms them into an engrossing menu.
Hawaii man says he's devastated about sending missile alert
The former Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee who sent a false missile alert to residents and visitors in Hawaii talks during an interview with reporters, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 in Honolulu. The ex-state employee says he's devastated about causing panic, but he believed it was a real attack at the time. The man in his 50s spoke to reporters Friday on the condition he not be identified because he fears for his safety after receiving threats. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
Fixer-upper: Can Toronto turn a patch of urban wasteland into Amazon’s jewel?
Claude-Eric Gagne, senior PMO staffer, resigns following investigation
Marijuana millionaires: The Canadian execs getting rich off the rally
Neil Closner, CEO of MedReleaf is photographed in one of the company's facilities in Markham, On., on Friday, February 2, 2018.
Rehashing Super Bowl 39 as an Eagles-Patriots rematch looms
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady fumbles the ball as Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse moves in on the play during Super Bowl 39 on Feb. 6, 2005.
Humane Society head steps down after harassment allegations
Alberta legislature member for United Conservative Party resigns
Djokovic says he had 'medical intervention' on right elbow
South Korea's Chung Hyeon, right, is congratulated by Serbia's Novak Djokovic after winning their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Djokovic says he had a "small medical intervention" on his bothersome right elbow. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Dita Alangkara
The Latest: Vermont governor thankful for help in fraud case
With the release of the memo, Trump turns the tables on his accusers
Lawrence Martin
Proposed pipeline regulations shouldn't start a 'trade war:' B.C. premier
British Columbia Premier John Horgan responds to questions during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday February 2, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Liberal leadership hopeful loses members over missing emails before vote count
B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Todd Stone speaks during the first leadership debate in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday October 15, 2017. One of the contenders vying to lead British Columbia's Liberal party won't have the backing of 1,349 prospective members who were disqualified from voting because of incomplete applications. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie encourages players to have off-season jobs
CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie speaks with the media during his State of the League address Friday November 24, 2017 in Ottawa. Commissioner Randy Ambrosie offered a solution Friday to CFL players looking to make more money: Find an off-season job. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Market pullback jolts investors who gave in to the fear of missing out
A television screen displays the Dow Jones industrial average story, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 2, 2018.
Former Knicks star Charles Oakley cleared of assault charges
Federal Reserve imposes new penalties on Wells Fargo
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, a man walks past a Wells Fargo location in Philadelphia. The Federal Reserve is imposing more penalties on Wells Fargo, freezing the bank's growth until it can prove it has improved its internal controls. The new penalties were announced late Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, on Fed Chair Janet Yellen's last day at the central bank. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Pence stumps for GOP candidate in 1st '18 congressional race
Vice President Mike Pence waves as he arrives for an America First Policies Event, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Bullish on Intact Financial
Bullish on Intact Financial
Intact Financial
Why Canada’s pot stock boom just doesn’t add up
Dave Barrett, B.C.'s first NDP premier, was a lively figure
Former B.C. premier Dave Barrett is pictured in this handout photo from 2000.
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
Pain doc free pending appeal in patient overdose deaths
Former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett dies at age 87
Former NDP Premier Dave Barrett is seen at a hearing in Vancouver on Wednesday May 3, 2000 in Vancouver. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Chuck Stoody
Lands stripped from Utah monuments open to claims, leases
FILE - This May 30, 1997, file photo, shows the varied terrain of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near Boulder, Utah. The window opened Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, for oil, gas, uranium and coal companies to make requests or stake claims to lands that were cut from two sprawling Utah national monuments by President Trump in December but there doesn't appear to be a rush to seize the opportunity. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
Officers not charged in death of woman in 2014
Clarification: Guatemala-Archaeology story
This digital 3D image provided by Guatemala's Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation, PACUNAM, shows a depiction of the Mayan archaeological site at Tikal in Guatemala created using LiDAR aerial mapping technology. Researchers announced Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, that using a high-tech aerial mapping technique they have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and roads in the dense jungle of Guatemala's Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought. (Canuto & Auld-Thomas/PACUNAM via AP)
Best Buy to hand out bonuses to workers
Insiders buying as LNG-focused Pieridae Energy rallies
Insiders buying as LNG-focused Pieridae Energy rallies
Pieridae Energy
The Latest: 11 legislative staffers faced misconduct probes
Tory leader Scheer open to echoing Quebec's constitutional demands in 2019
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer holds his daughter Mary as his other daughter Madeline, left, walks by his side before meeting Bonhomme at the Palais de Bonhomme as part of Quebec's winter carnival, Friday, February 2, 2018 in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Canadiens recall forward Nikita Scherbak from AHL Laval
9-foot-long snake's escape leads to school early dismissal
The Latest: Defendants get life in football hero's death
Parents charged with faking son's brain cancer for money
Saskatchewan Roughrider Duron Carter charged in Saskatoon with pot possession
Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver Duron Carter takes a breather during first half CFL action against the B.C. Lions, in Regina on Sunday, August 13, 2017. Roughriders' wide receiver Carter has been charged with marijuana possession.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
Jeffboat says 2nd round of layoffs to trim 226 workers
Judge declines to issue order barring Greitens' texting app
Twitterature: Wading into the choppy waters of CanLit
Marsha Lederman
The legendary emerging-markets trailblazer Mark Mobius on bargain hunting, regrets and his next chapter
Mark Mobius, who has just retired as executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, will continue to scour the globe for investment nuggets, but now he will do it at his own pace.
2 wrongfully convicted immigrants face uncertain future
This undated Illinois Department of Corrections photo via the Chicago Sun-Times shows Arturo DeLeon-Reyes, a Mexican immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of a double-murder nearly 20 years ago and granted his freedom in December 2017. His liberty was short-lived because he was in the country illegally and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be deported. He wants to return home in the Mexican state of Jalisco and has opted for voluntary deportation, which an immigration judge granted, but the government is appealing to get an involuntary deportation. He remains in custody at the Kenosha County Detention Center in Wisconsin for another three weeks while the government finalizes its appeal. (Illinois Department of Corrections/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Business Highlights
Correction: Obit-Jon Huntsman Sr story
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, shows Jon Huntsman, Sr., during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Basketball Facility at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Utah billionaire and philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. has died. Huntsman's assistant Pam Bailey confirmed he died Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Salt Lake City. He was 80. Bailey declined to name a cause of death. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
What the GOP memo says (and doesn't say)
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listen the national anthem during the opening of the summit on Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking at Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. President Donald Trump, dogged by an unrelenting investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia, lashes out at the FBI and Justice Department as politically biased ahead of the expected release of a classified Republican memo criticizing FBI surveillance tactics. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Ex-prosecutor sentenced for illegal spying in love triangle
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a town hall in Nanamio, B.C., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
The Latest: Groups sue to void Alaska oil lease sales
FILE--In this undated file photo, drilling operations at the Doyon Rig 19 at the Conoco-Phillips Carbon location in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, are shown. Five environmental groups sued the federal government Friday, claiming the Interior Department conducted a petroleum lease sale in northern Alaska without proper environmental review. (AP Photo/Judy Patrick, File)
How major US stock indexes fared on Friday
Another 2,000 Kentuckians could lose disability benefits
Review: Bang Bang examines a white playwright’s attempt to profit off black pain
Bang Bang begins as a playwright shows up at the house of a black ex-cop who left the police force after she shot a young, unarmed black man after he ran a red light.
Evening Update newsletter: Republicans release memo, Supreme Court, Dow tumbles
The memo, prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee, says there was “a troubling breakdown of legal processes” in the Russia investigation
Canada’s peacekeeping contribution reaches new low despite Trudeau’s promises
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reviews an honour guard as they arrive at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Yavoriv, Ukraine on July 12, 2016.
Defendants get life in prison in teen football hero's death
FILE - In this April 26, 2017, file photo, Zenobia Dobson kisses a photograph of her son Zaevion Dobson that serves as the memorial marker for a new playground named and dedicated in his honor in Knoxville, Tenn. One defendant received a life sentence and two co-defendants were given prison terms of more than 100 years each Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 for their roles in the 2015 death of Zaevion Dobson, a teenage football player who received national praise for shielding friends from gunfire. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)
NHL players confused over league's goaltender interference rule
Ottawa Senators' Derick Brassard (19) collides with Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (29) for a goaltender interference penalty in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh on December 5, 2016. The NHL took steps to simplify reviews of goaltender interference but what constitutes an infraction is as fuzzy as ever, as two new controversies this week showed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Gene J. Puskar
Eight seriously injured in collision involving bus and van near Stayner, Ont.
Streetwise newsletter: The week’s best reads: Aphria, TD, Vanguard
A Bay street sign is seen in Toronto’s financial district.
Trump nominee for ambassador to Singapore withdraws
FILE - In this March 29, 2017, file photo, Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland speaks at the Women's Empowerment Panel, at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump said Feb. 2, 2018, that McFarland had withdrawn from consideration to be ambassador to Singapore, expressing his “disappointment.” He said McFarland served his administration “with distinction” and said Democrats “chose to play politics rather than move forward with a qualified nominee for a critically important post.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Rose McGowan cancels book tour due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
Rose McGowan signs copies of her memoir Brave at Barnes & Noble Union Square on Jan. 31, 2018 in New York City.
Settlement reached in lawsuit over sweltering Texas prison
Great-West Life acquires EverWest in U.S. real estate push
Great-West Lifeco headquarters picture in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013.
Beware: Donald Trump’s wall is also about Canada
Barrie McKenna
Apple and Alphabet skid while Amgen and Edwards jump
Review: Timberlake is a man lost in the woods on new album
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 file photo, Justin Timberlake answers questions during a news conference for the NFL Super Bowl 52 football game halftime show in Minneapolis. Justin Timberlake is a man lost in the woods on disappointing new album. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Condos, townhomes drive January growth in Vancouver housing market
Condos and apartment buildings are seen in downtown Vancouver, B.C., on Feb. 2, 2017.
Method vs. Message: How sports can start a movement
Voters ask US Supreme Court not to delay legislative maps
New data: child abuse deaths rise, notably in Texas, Indiana
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2017, file photo, juvenile Judge Marilyn Moores speaks during an interview in Indianapolis. Newly released federal figures show a sharp rise in child abuse fatalities in the U.S., with the bulk of the increase occurring in two states, Indiana and Texas, where child-welfare agencies have been in disarray. Moores says her Indianapolis courtroom has seen a surge in child welfare cases due to the opioid epidemic. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
Iowa court: offensive text photos aren't indecent exposure
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