Category Archives: Canadian Press
Leafs' Andersen to start against Penguins after missing game with sore knee
TORONTO - Maple Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen will get the start when Toronto hosts the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight. Leafs head coach Mike Babcock made the announcement following today’s mornin...
Oct 18, 2018
Ryan Suzuki aiming to join brother Nick as a first-round draft pick in 2019
TORONTO - Ryan Suzuki isn’t shy when the chance to chirp his older brother Nick comes his way. That’s how it’s been since they were kids playing mini-stick hockey and video games in ...
Oct 18, 2018
Police called after Nova Scotia cleaners mop, vacuum wrong house
HALIFAX - Homeowners who thought they had been robbed got a happy surprise instead: Their house was cleaned for free by cleaners who went to the wrong address. Police say the two women went to the hom...
Oct 18, 2018
Problems plagued military trip that led to charges against former NHLer: Report
OTTAWA - Canada’s top general is overhauling military morale-boosting tours after an internal investigation uncovered the extent of the problems with a 2017 trip to Latvia that resulted in a sex...
Oct 18, 2018
Michael Vick's father gets 5 years for drug-ring role
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The father of former pro-football star Michael Vick has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in a drug ring. News outlets report 56-year-old Michael Dwayne B...
Oct 18, 2018
Change coming, Francois Legault vows as he becomes Quebec premier
Quebec Premier Francois Legault promised to bring renewal and change to the province’s politics Thursday after his convincing election victory ended nearly 50 years of Liberal and Parti Quebecoi...
Oct 18, 2018
Spain arrests 4, seizes 115 properties in Venezuelan probe
MADRID - Spanish police have arrested a former Venezuelan official and an exiled opposition leader’s relative and seized more than 115 properties in a money-laundering investigation into a ring ...
Oct 18, 2018
Actor Bruce Willis sells central Idaho ranch for $5.5M
HAILEY, Idaho - Actor Bruce Willis has sold his 20-acre (8-hectare) ranch in central Idaho for $5.5 million. KTVB-TV reports in a story on Wednesday that’s far below the original asking price of...
Oct 18, 2018
Punjabi-Canadians roll into trucking, rerouting a traditional industry
Nachhattar Singh Chohan lived in Canada eight years before he tried his hand at trucking. A former brake plant worker and gas station attendant with farming roots, the then-34-year-old marshalled his ...
Oct 18, 2018
4-year-old boy shot, wounded in apparent case of road rage
WICHITA, Kan. - A man and a woman have been arrested in the shooting of 4-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident after one vehicle cut off another in a Kansas city. Wichita Police Chief Gordon...
Oct 18, 2018