Category Archives: Canadian Press
Four expansion teams begin stocking their roster in NBA 2K League expansion draft
Raptors Uprising GC and the other 16 existing esports teams can lose just one player each in Wednesday’s NBA 2K League expansion draft. The Atlanta Hawks won the expansion draft lottery and will...
Sep 25, 2018
Ottawa Senators place forward Zack Smith on waivers
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have placed forward Zack Smith on waivers. Smith has three years remaining on a four-year, US$13-million dollar contract extension he signed in January 2017. The 30-year-o...
Sep 25, 2018
Will Smith to make birthday bungee jump near Grand Canyon
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. - Will Smith is diving head first into turning 50. The actor will mark his milestone birthday Tuesday by bungee jumping from a helicopter in northern Arizona. It wil...
Sep 25, 2018
As NBA 2K League holds expansion draft, MLSE looks to expand esports presence
While expansion franchises Atlanta, Minnesota, Brooklyn and Los Angeles Lakers start stocking their rosters in the NBA 2K League expansion draft Wednesday, the people behind Raptors Uprising GC are lo...
Sep 25, 2018
Ontario environmental watchdog pans government move to scrap cap and trade
TORONTO - Ontario’s environmental watchdog criticized the Progressive Conservative government on Tuesday for dismantling the province’s cap-and-trade system without putting in an effective...
Sep 25, 2018
Books on famine, factories vie for $75,000 history prize
LONDON - A story of starvation in Stalin’s Soviet Union, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a look at how factories changed the world are among finalists for a $75,000 history book prize. E...
Sep 25, 2018
NDP Quebec looking to bring left-leaning, non-sovereigntist voters to the fold
MONTREAL - For the New Democratic Party of Quebec, the connection to its federal counterpart ends with the name. There’s no working relationship between the new provincial party and its national...
Sep 25, 2018
Quebec election: talk of minority government, hiding money out of country
MONTREAL - The possibility of a minority government and insinuations of money hidden outside the country dominated on Day 34 of the Quebec election campaign Tuesday. Questions of coalition governments...
Sep 25, 2018
Province reports first decrease in child welfare numbers in 15 years
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s high number of kids in the child welfare system has dropped for the first time in 15 years, show figures released Tuesday by the provincial government. Excerpts from the Fa...
Sep 25, 2018
Whitecaps say firing coaching staff before season's end gives them a jump on next year
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps say they are not giving up on this season despite firing their head coach with five games to go. Team president Bob Lenarduzzi said Tuesday that the decision to dis...
Sep 25, 2018