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• Washington on verge of a Capital collapse
  TAMPA, Fa. — This is a crackup. This is a cave-in. These are the Washington Capitals, beset by bad luck real or imagined, by core players who are ...
• Harper wins a majority
  CALGARY — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has emerged from the election campaign as a much more powerful prime minister and will lead a ...
• Weber’s mom never far from his thoughts
  VANCOUVER — Shea Weber was 15 years old when his mom’s headaches started.Infrequent at first, they soon became the kind that makes you want to ...
• The guessing game
  DETROIT — With at least a couple of more days before they know who they’ll play in the second-round, the Detroit Red Wings hit the couch with TV ...
• Calgary’s Kate mistaken for prince’s bride-to-be
  Calgary — They share the same first name, they’re the same age and have the same good looks.But one is a royal bride-to-be, the other is a ...
• My bad
  Montreal — It happens that I share my life with someone who is unfailingly punctual: if you tell him you’ll pick him up at 7:30, he’ll be outside ...
• Canadiens-Bruins series full of juicy sub-plots
  MONTREAL — The comment was displayed three Aprils ago on a storeys-tall banner flapping from the scaffolding of luxury apartments under ...
• Sweet without the sugar
  Vancouver — ike the plumber with the eternally dripping faucet, cooks and chefs don’t always fix bad eating habits. For Andrea Potter, busy ...
• NHL sets new precedent with Cooke
  The easiest call the National Hockey League’s supplemental discipline office ever made was to suspend Matt Cooke. There was no defence. Not even ...
• Igor, Tomas dropped from hurricane name list
  Two hurricane names — including Igor, the name of the storm that pounded Newfoundland last fall causing one fatality and widespread damage — have ...
• Couple refuses to surrender to Alzheimer’s grip
  Vancouver — Betty Kellogg sits in her sunny living room and flips through a photo album that has become part of her memory bank. A stroke at 75 ...
• A Newfoundlander in a Russian chess master’s skin
  VANCOUVER — It sits elegantly inside a corrugated-steel sound stage: an entire hotel, built room-by-room, complete with gift shop, cafe and ...
• Twitter impersonators wreak havoc on deadline day
  The Social Network didn’t win a lot of Oscars on Sunday night, but Facebook’s abbreviated little cousin struck back at the establishment 12 hours ...
• Dating 2.0
  Calgary — When Ayla Fraser started dating her boyfriend 10 months ago, she relied on a network of girlfriends to help her navigate the fledgling ...
• MP under fire for comments on search and rescue...
  Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant is under fire for suggesting Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who make their living from the sea take more ...
• Future Shift
  Vancouver — Imagine a room that expands depending on how many people are within sensor range, with walls that project vivid scenes from nature ...
• Farmers battle oilmen over land use
  Calgary — Alberta’s urban/rural divide, pitting farmers against oilmen, will widen further if the province’s energy regulator allows energy ...
• This Finn still can finish
  OTTAWA — Beware the Duck Finns. The Finns on the Anaheim Ducks, that is. Maybe Teemu Selanne, at age 40, is such a freak of nature it ...
• Status update
  Vancouver — All the world may be a stage, but the players can now be found on Facebook. Squeezed by shrinking funding and a battered economy, ...
• Edmonton rock station to play banned Dire Straits song
  Warning: This story contains language that may be offensive to some. Edmonton — A classic rock radio station in Edmonton says it will ...
• Burke stays patient as trade deadline looms
  Toronto — If you were Brian Burke, what do you do? Your team, which has missed the post-season the past five years, is buried 13 points below the ...
• It takes a village
  Edmonton — “Liz, Liz, come quick!” Claire shrieked from the basement. “It’s … THE COLOUR!” I raced downstairs. Claire ...
• Group effort shows promise
  Global fisheries, including those in Canada, can be sustained by following a “community-based co-management” model, according to an American ...
• 10 Filmmakers talk about their inspirations
  There is something both fascinating and bizarre about Great Directors, a documentary in which an attractive woman named Angela Ismailos — “a ...
• Habs’ defence suffers another blow
  Mid-season assessments rarely produce any news but there was an exception Thursday when Montreal Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier ...
• Parents urged to be careful at casting calls for...
  TORONTO — Entertainment industry experts are cautioning parents against blindly taking their infant children to open-call film and television ...
• As good as gold (well, almost as good)
  Buffalo — They were reminded every time they walked by that wall in Niagara Falls before the tournament, where letters from local schoolchildren ...
• Boardroom parity? Try next century
  Gender parity in the executive suites and boardrooms of Canadian companies is in sight — if you have a telescope. If advances continue at their ...
• On the road to redemption
  Buffalo, New York — None of them were aesthetically pleasing, but nobody ever said anything about Canada being a pretty team, and nobody in the ...
• Canada’s cat whisperer
  Ottawa — Call it the Woof Factor. Dogs — shameless tail-waggers when they want attention — are better cared for by pet owners than cats, those ...