WINNIPEG – Winnipeg escape artist Dean Gunnarson emerged from his grave on Sunday afternoon after he was buried alive, under three tonnes of dirt, on Friday night. Hands first, he came to the surface. Gunnarson timed his escape for 1:26 p.m. on Halloween, the same day and time that his idol, Harry Houdini, died in [...]
BRANDON - Today, cancer patients from across Manitoba have to travel to Winnipeg for radiation treatment. However, a facility being built in Brandon will make treatment available closer to home for many, and for some, it could mean the difference between life and death. Seventy-four-year-old Shirley MacDonald of Brandon has beat cancer three separate times. In [...]
An Ottawa-area businessman who went missing in Mexico more than a week ago has been found dead in the trunk of his torched rental car, his family said on Sunday. Relative of Daniel Dion confirmed to CTV News that his body was found in the trunk of a completely burned rental car. “Considering what we [...]
CHICAGO – On his final campaign swing through four states in the Northeast and Midwest before Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Barack Obama is asking Democratic voters to go to the polls and help stem an expected Republican tide. “Chicago, it’s up to you to let them know that we have not forgotten, we don’t have [...]
SAO PAULO – The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular president is poised to replace him as leader of Latin America’s biggest nation when voters case ballots Sunday in a runoff election. Dilma Rousseff, a 62-year-old former Marxist guerrilla and career bureaucrat who long ago left behind her rebel ways, held a comfortable lead in [...]
NEW DELHI – India and China would look for “practical, pragmatic” measures to end border disputes which took the two countries to war in 1962, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. Singh, who met his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Friday at a regional summit in Hanoi, also said the two Asian giants must ensure [...]
BAGHDAD – A French airliner landed at Baghdad International Airport Sunday, becoming one of the first passenger planes to fly into the Iraqi capital direct from western Europe since the Gulf War and opening a potential new route to stronger international business ties. The inaugural flight by France’s Aigle Azur, which touched down shortly before [...]
ROME – An Italian lotto record jackpot of 177.7 million euros (247.8 million dollars) was won, having grown over nearly nine months with no one picking the winning combination, ANSA news agency reported. Several players will share the bumper Superenalotto jackpot although the number of winners was not immediately released, the agency reported. An Italian [...]
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