Category Archives: Canadian Press
Chicago slugger Abreu powers White Sox to 4-3 win over Toronto Blue Jays
TORONTO - The 2017 Toronto Blue Jays never got on track after struggling mightily at the start of the season. The 2018 edition of the team is closing out its first homestand of the year with a much be...
Apr 04, 2018
Oil spill that caused Indonesia fire was due to broken pipe
JAKARTA, Indonesia - An oil spill that caused a fire that killed five people and sickened hundreds in an Indonesian port city came from a broken pipe the state-owned energy company was using to transf...
Apr 04, 2018
Triathlon's Joanna Brown wins Canada's first medal of the Commonwealth Games
GOLD COAST, Australia - Canada’s first medal of the Commonwealth Games came the hard way. Joanna Brown, who almost didn’t make the race after fracturing her left shoulder in a bike crash M...
Apr 04, 2018
Liverpool blows away Man City in 3-0 win in CL quarterfinals
LIVERPOOL, England - The night started with their team bus being smashed up by beer cans and bottles. It ended with their Champions League ambitions in pieces, too. Manchester City’s players lea...
Apr 04, 2018
Sierra Leone declares opposition leader the new president
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone’s election commission declared main opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio as the West African nation’s new president Wednesday, giving the opposition ...
Apr 04, 2018
Trudeau's environment and economy balancing act to play out on western tour
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking his government’s balancing act between the economy and the environment on a western Canadian road show this week. However, the precariousness of ...
Apr 04, 2018
Lawyers for mosque killer to argue for life sentence, no parole for 25 years
MONTREAL - Lawyers for the man who shot dead six men at a Quebec City mosque will argue their client should receive a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Alexand...
Apr 04, 2018
Cynthia Nixon: Democrats need to let black women lead party
ALBANY, N.Y. - “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon said Wednesday black women are the cornerstone and backbone of the Democratic Party, and “we need to let them lead.” Appear...
Apr 04, 2018
One child from Alberta First Nation dead, others ill in hospital: EMS
MORLEY, Alta. - RCMP and paramedics were called to a rural home west of Calgary on Wednesday where an infant was pronounced dead and 14 other people were found suffering from influenza-like symptoms. ...
Apr 04, 2018
Power outages, major collision in southern Ontario due to windstorm
TORONTO - A powerful windstorm sweeping through southern Ontario and eastern Quebec on Wednesday knocked out power to tens of thousands of people and disrupted travel in the air and on the roads. Envi...
Apr 04, 2018