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COVID-19 pandemic has forever impacted life of Montreal Alouettes star and his family
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever left its mark on Montreal Alouettes linebacker Henoc Muamba and his family. Mamba's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Tweneboah, died in June after contracting the novel coron...
Jan 14, 2021

Gov't watchdog: DOJ failed 'zero tolerance' management
WASHINGTON - Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 "zero tolerance" border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other ag...
Jan 14, 2021

Supreme Court to examine limits on conditional sentencing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of a law that prevented a judge from allowing an offender to avoid jail by imposing a conditional sentence for certain crimes. T...
Jan 14, 2021

Canadian forward Tyler Pasher returns to MLS with the Houston Dynamo
Canadian forward Tyler Pasher is back in Major League Soccer, signing with the Houston Dynamo from the USL Championship's Indy Eleven. The 26-year-old from Elmira, Ont., scored 23 goals and added six ...
Jan 14, 2021

"Anyone's Game" goes behind the scenes of Canada's top high school prep program
TORONTO - Early in Episode 1 of "Anyone's Game," Tony McIntyre talks about the growth he'd seen in Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe, an explosive six-foot-seven wing who arrived at Orangeville Prep as a r...
Jan 14, 2021

Man arrested in anti-Semitic graffiti attack on Montreal synagogue to appear in court
Montreal police say a 28-year-old man arrested Wednesday for allegedly defacing a synagogue with anti-Semitic graffiti will appear in court today.The man was arrested after spray-painted swastikas wer...
Jan 14, 2021

NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response
New York's attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of a longstanding pattern of abuse that...
Jan 14, 2021

Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record
Earth's rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially t...
Jan 14, 2021

PSAC contesting CRA determination that payments of Phoenix damages are taxable
OTTAWA - The country's biggest civil service union says it will contest a decision that would see government workers pay tax on money they receive as part of a settlement reached over long-standing pr...
Jan 14, 2021

Trump impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day, just as Democrat Joe Biden takes the oath of office in an extraordinary end to the defeated president's tenure ...
Jan 14, 2021