Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canadian Premier League to play in Hamilton and Langford, B.C., on opening weekend
TORONTO - The Canadian Premier League’s opening weekend will feature matches in Hamilton and Langford, B.C. The new men’s pro soccer league had already announced its season opener - with Y...
Feb 22, 2019
Canadian golfer Roger Sloan surges into contention at Puerto Rico Open
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico - Canada’s Roger Sloan was one shot back of the lead after a windy second round at the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open. The 31-year-old from Merritt, B.C., shot a 5-und...
Feb 22, 2019
QuadrigaCX case: Canada's big banks wary of cryptocurrency assets
HALIFAX - The wary skepticism that Canada’s big banks have for the cryptocurrency industry was on full display Friday when a Nova Scotia judge issued an order for the eventual disbursement of mo...
Feb 22, 2019
Lawyers take Quebec to court over abrupt closure of 18,000 immigration files
MONTREAL - The judge hearing an injunction request over the Quebec government’s decision to cancel more than 18,000 immigration applications will render a decision early next week. Representativ...
Feb 22, 2019
El Chapo wants new trial, hearing to probe jury misconduct
NEW YORK - The defence team for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said Friday it will seek a new trial for the notorious drug lord in light of “misconduct” on the part of several juror...
Feb 22, 2019
A look at 16 new recommendations for Ottawa on the Trans Mountain pipeline
The National Energy Board has endorsed an expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. If approved by Ottawa, the regulator says it will impose 156 conditions on the project. It has also made 16 new reco...
Feb 22, 2019
"I don't really like him;" Lowry's friendship with DeRozan tough to describe
TORONTO - Kyle Lowry’s intention was to do his two year’s time in Toronto then hightail it to another NBA team. And so he barely spoke to DeMar DeRozan during those two years. Lowry was un...
Feb 22, 2019
Judge dismisses charges over boy's death on waterslide
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A judge dismissed criminal charges Friday against a Kansas water park owner and the designer of a 17-story slide on which a 10-year-old boy was decapitated in 2016. Wyandotte Count...
Feb 22, 2019
'More than rage': How a Haitian-Canadian's message helped fuel an uprising
MONTREAL - In a photo posted to Twitter last summer, Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. sits on a couch in Montreal, wearing a blindfold and holding up a cardboard sign with a handwritten Creole message that reads...
Feb 22, 2019
Premiers call for end to tariffs, reboot on Canada-U.S. relationship
WASHINGTON - Three of Canada’s premiers brought an earnest, brass-tacks message to the U.S. national capital Friday: hit the reset button on one of the most important cross-border relationships ...
Feb 22, 2019