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Maple Leafs legend Mats Sundin looks back in 'Home and Away'
TORONTO - Mats Sundin was in a familiar place. Everything was also very different. It was February 2009. The former captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs was back in his second home - only this time as a...
Oct 21, 2024
Fleming, Sauerbrunn and over 100 women's soccer players protest FIFA deal with Saudi oil giant Aramco
ZURICH (AP) - Canadian national team captain Jessie Fleming, former U.S. national team captain Becky Sauerbrunn and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema are among more than 100 women's soccer players ...
Oct 21, 2024
Moldovans narrowly vote to secure the country's path toward EU membership
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - Moldovans have voted by a razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country's path toward European Union membership, electoral data showed Monday, following a ballot a day ...
Oct 21, 2024
Forward Jade Kovacevic is the first player signing announced by Northern Super League
TORONTO - Jade Kovacevic, a veteran forward who has scored goals at home and abroad, is the first player signing revealed by the new Northern Super League. The 30-year-old from Acton, Ont., has joined...
Oct 21, 2024
Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in Pennsylvania
SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Fethullah Glen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, ha...
Oct 21, 2024
In the news today: MPs returning, but it's hardly business as usual
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... MPs returning, but it's hardly business as usual The House of Commons returns today from a week-long break, bu...
Oct 21, 2024
Minimum wage to hire higher-paid temporary foreign workers set to increase
OTTAWA - The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers in the high-wage stream as a way to encourage employers to hire more Canadia...
Oct 21, 2024
Parliament returns amid partisan wrangling, rumblings about Trudeau's leadership
OTTAWA - The House of Commons returns today from a week-long break, but it's unlikely to be business as usual. Members of Parliament are slated to resume debating a Conservative demand for documents a...
Oct 21, 2024
B.C.'s final election result won't be known until recounts complete Oct. 26-28
VANCOUVER - The final results of British Columbia's weekend election won't be known until at least next week. Elections BC says official recounts are being held in two tight ridings where the differen...
Oct 21, 2024
Montreal man detained in Sudan gets day in court with lawsuit against Ottawa
OTTAWA - Fifteen years after filing a lawsuit against the Canadian government over his detention in Sudan, Abousfian Abdelrazik is getting his day in court. An eight-week civil trial, slated to begin ...
Oct 21, 2024