Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nylander, Matthews have three points each as Maple Leafs top Lightning
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t let a late Tampa Bay rally affect their game plan Monday night. Instead they refocused to show they could compete with the top team in the Eastern Confer...
Feb 12, 2018
Payday loans a growing part of Ontario's personal insolvencies, study finds
TORONTO - A study by a Toronto-based firm says the rate of insolvent borrowers using payday loans in Ontario has grown for the sixth consecutive year. Insolvency trustee firm Hoyes Michalos & Asso...
Feb 12, 2018
Odorizzi, Stroman have hearings in final arbitration week
PHOENIX - Toronto’s Marcus Stroman and Tampa Bay’s Jake Odorizzi went to hearings to begin the final week of what could be the busiest salary arbitration season since 1990. Stroman asked f...
Feb 12, 2018
Rep: Smashing Pumpkins tried to include bassist in reunion
NEW YORK - A spokesperson for The Smashing Pumpkins says the band has tried to include ex-bassist D’arcy Wretzky in its upcoming reunion though she claims she has been excluded. The representati...
Feb 12, 2018
PM says time to recognize anti-black racism exists, work to ensure equality
GATINEAU, Que. - Justin Trudeau says it’s time Canadians acknowledged that racism and unconscious bias against black people exist in this country. And the prime minister says it’s time to ...
Feb 12, 2018
Quarterback Travis Lulay signs contract extension with B.C. Lions
VANCOUVER - Quarterback Travis Lulay says he’s relieved to sign a one-year deal with the B.C. Lions but isn’t sure if he will have recovered from off-season knee surgery in time for the st...
Feb 12, 2018
Judge schedules 6-day hearing in Penn State frat death case
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Penn State fraternity brothers facing refiled charges in a pledge’s hazing death are scheduled for a second hearing on whether prosecutors have enough evidence to send the most...
Feb 12, 2018
North Korea: US criticism of its rights shows fear of nukes
North Korea on Monday sharply criticized President Donald Trump for inviting a defector to attend the State of the Union address and Vice-President Mike Pence for taking the father of Otto Warmbier to...
Feb 12, 2018
Cyclone destroys Parliament House, homes on Tonga, Fiji next
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The Pacific nation of Tonga began cleaning up damage Tuesday from a cyclone that destroyed its Parliament House, as well as homes and churches, and was intensifying as it hea...
Feb 12, 2018
Trump aims for moon, pulls back on space station, telescopes
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Under President Donald Trump’s 2019 p...
Feb 12, 2018