Category Archives: Canadian Press
Source: Toronto reaches agreement in principle to get Alejandro Pozuelo from Genk
Toronto FC has got its man. A source confirmed Tuesday that the MLS team has reached an agreement in principle to acquire Spanish attacking midfielder Alejandro Pozuelo from Belgian league-leader KRC ...
Feb 26, 2019
Key Sanders 2016 strategists won't return for 2020 campaign
WASHINGTON - Three strategists who played key roles in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign said Tuesday they will not join his 2020 White House bid, in the latest sign of how the cam...
Feb 26, 2019
Crown seeks six years for Toronto man who tried to join ISIL in Syria
TORONTO - Ontario prosecutors want a Toronto man who tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria to spend six years behind bars, while his defence team is pushing for a sentence of about half that ...
Feb 26, 2019
Pregnant woman's death was accident or suicide, husband's lawyers tell trial
TORONTO - Lawyers for a former Toronto pastor accused in the drowning of his pregnant wife argued Tuesday that the woman died in a “tragic accident” or took her own life after growing susp...
Feb 26, 2019
Coalition Avenir Quebec government to table first budget on March 21
QUEBEC - Francois Legault’s Coalition Avenir Quebec government will table its first budget on March 21. Finance Minister Eric Girard announced the date today, telling Quebecers they can expect g...
Feb 26, 2019
R. Kelly's affinity for McDonald's dates to childhood
CHICAGO - When R. Kelly was released on bail after spending the weekend in a Chicago jail, he headed straight to a McDonald’s - a restaurant chain he has fond childhood memories of but that also...
Feb 26, 2019
Fiat Chrysler: $4.5B plan would add 6,500 Detroit-area jobs
DETROIT - Fiat Chrysler on Tuesday announced a $4.5 billion plan that includes building the first new auto assembly plant in Detroit in almost three decades and increasing its workforce in the area by...
Feb 26, 2019
US appeals court clears AT&T's $81B purchase of Time Warner
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner, rejecting the Trump administration’s claims that the $81 billion deal will harm consumers and re...
Feb 26, 2019
Correction: People-Stephen King-Genealogical Research story
BOSTON - In headlines for a story Feb. 26 about a grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the grant came from Stephen King himself. A subsequ...
Feb 26, 2019
Liberals' bump in child benefits fuels poverty rate drop, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Fewer Canadians are living under the official poverty line than at any time in the last decade, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday The agency laid the credit for the drop on a combination of ...
Feb 26, 2019