Category Archives: Canadian Press
Japan advances on yellow cards despite losing at World Cup
VOLGOGRAD, Russia - Nice guys don’t necessarily finish last at the World Cup. Fair play, a newly implemented tiebreaker in the group stage of the world’s biggest soccer tournament, was put...
Jun 28, 2018
Colombia advances while Senegal is eliminated by tiebreaker
SAMARA, Russia - The “fair play” tiebreaker doesn’t seem all that fair to Senegal. The last African team standing at the World Cup lost to Colombia 1-0 Thursday, leaving it even with...
Jun 28, 2018
English soccer star Wayne Rooney signs with DC United
WASHINGTON - Wayne Rooney is coming to Major League Soccer with D.C. United, the latest star to take his talents across the pond to the United States. Rooney follows the lead of Swede Zlatan Ibrahimov...
Jun 28, 2018
Former Canada coach Stephen Hart to run HFX Wanderers FC, Halifax's new CPL team
Former national team coach Stephen Hart is back in the frontline of Canadian soccer. The 58-year-old Hart has been named head coach and general manager of HFX Wanderers FC, Halifax’s entry in th...
Jun 28, 2018
New Brunswick set for cannabis retail but first year sales less than forecast
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick says it will be ready for cannabis sales when it becomes legal in October - but the delay from the original July startup will cost the province millions. Finance Minister C...
Jun 28, 2018
Canadians dodged paying feds up to $3B in taxes on foreign income: CRA
OTTAWA - Canadians dodged paying Ottawa somewhere between $800 million and $3 billion worth of taxes on foreign personal income in 2014, says a new federal estimate released Thursday. The study by the...
Jun 28, 2018
Mike Duffy lawyers raise spectre of past scandal in bid to sue Senate
OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy’s lawyers recalled the political scandal surrounding his expense claims in a bid Thursday to keep the Senate in the crosshairs of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over his ...
Jun 28, 2018
Toronto gallery to unveil cross-cultural Canadian and Indigenous art centre
TORONTO - The curatorial team tasked with re-envisioning the Art Gallery of Ontario’s permanent collection of Canadian and Indigenous works says the overhaul signals a creative culture shift for...
Jun 28, 2018
Blue Jays putting emphasis on mental performance throughout organization
TORONTO - The so-called mind gym is one of the first places new draft picks go at the Toronto Blue Jays’ training facility in Dunedin, Fla. It’s a group workshop where they learn the impor...
Jun 28, 2018
Canadian Open lands Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson as headliners
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Bill Paul was like any other golf fan, watching as Brooks Koepka seized control on No. 16 at Shinnecock Hills to win the U.S. Open. But as tournament director for the upcoming RBC Can...
Jun 28, 2018