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  • Stanley Cup Playoffs 2013 Overtime Heroes

    San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture, front, reacts after netting the overtime winner on Saturday in a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. (Stephen ...

  • Sang-Moon Baes 1st PGA win comes at Byron Nelson

    Sang-Moon Bae kisses the trophy as he poses for photos on the 18th green after winning the Byron Nelson Championship Sunday in Irving, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/Associated ...

  • Prince Andrew in Victoria for Highland Games

    Prince Andrew is in Victoria this weekend, as Scots celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Highland Games. The 53-year-old prince, the second son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, opened the ceremonies on Saturday. "It's a great pleasure to be able to witness a wonderful parade by the Royal Canadian Navy," he said. "The armed services of the United Kingdom and Canada ...

  • Police nab Calgary motorcyclist at 180 kmh

    RCMP in Airdrie arrested two men for speeding Saturday on Highway 2 near Crossfield, where one of the men was travelling at 180 km/h. An officer spotted two sport motorcycles travelling together at about 140 km/h in a posted 110 km/h zone. One of the motorcycles, a yellow Yamaha R1, stopped for police while the other, a blue Suzuki GSX R750, fled southbound. The officer contacted a partner who ...

  • Matlow says council likely to reject casino at meeting

    City councillors will debate the casino issue at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, despite Mayor Rob Ford's prior efforts to quash the meeting. "It's not the mayor who gets to decide whether or not a casino is going to happen, just like he couldn't say that Transit City was dead or really any city policy," Coun. Josh Matlow said during an interview with CBC News on ...

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Scandal [DVD]

Scandal [DVD]

In 1963, the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was rocked with a sex scandal involving Macmillan's Secretary of War, John Profumo, and a young woman named Christine Keeler. The fact that the married Profumo was having an illicit relationship with a woman that many characterized as a high-price call girl was certainly questionable, but not enough to topple a go ... ...

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  • Bodies of missing lobster fishermen found off N.B. coast

    Two more bodies were found Sunday near a sunken lobster boat that went down after hitting a sandbar in rough water. Three crewmen were missing after the boat hit a sandbar about 5:30 a.m. Saturday and took on water. Hours later, the body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on the shoreline near where the boat sank. A 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old man remained missing but were located about ...

  • Nigel Wright’s resignation sends a powerful signal serving Canadians is high risks with few rewards

    Long-distance runner: Most mornings Nigel Wright runs a pre-dawn half-marathon through the streets of Ottawa - and still beats most of his staff to the office. (Dave Chan For The Globe and ...

  • Tre Kronor are world hockey kings - Swedes beat Swiss for gold

    Henrik Sedin scored twice on Sunday as Sweden won the gold medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championship with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Earlier, the United States beat Finland 3-2 in a shootout to win bronze. Erik Gustafsson, Simon Hjalmarsson and Loui Eriksson also scored for Sweden, which became the first country to win the title at home since the Soviet Union in 1986. Roman Josi opened ...

  • Canadians Bouchard Gagne dive to silver at FINA Grand Prix event

    Maxim Bouchard of St-Constant, Que., and Philippe Gagne of Montreal won the silver medal in the men's 10-metre synchro on Sunday to conclude the fifth stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Huo Liang and Jiang Yang of China were the victors with 444.24 points followed by the Canadians at 379.32 and David Dinsmore and Christopher Law of the U.S., third at ...

  • Arsenal grabs final Champions League berth EPL

    Sir Alex Ferguson won 13 Premier League titles, two European Cups and five FA Cups at the helm of Manchester United. (Richard Heathcote/Getty ...

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