Category Archives: Canadian Press

Blue Jays name rookie Trent Thornton to starting rotation in place of Borucki
MONTREAL - With opening day around the corner, the Toronto Blue Jays plugged a hole in their starting rotation. The Blue Jays named right-hander Trent Thornton to the starting five on Tuesday, giving ...
Mar 26, 2019
Lightning reward head coach Jon Cooper with multi-year contract extension
TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed head coach Jon Cooper to a multi-year contract extension, the club announced Tuesday. A native of Prince George, B.C., Cooper has been behind the Tamp...
Mar 26, 2019

Manitoba awareness campaign aims to stop sexual harassment of civil servants
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is undertaking a governmentwide awareness campaign to ensure employees aren’t facing sexual harassment at work. The campaign includes six posters that explain ...
Mar 26, 2019

Save The Children: 7 killed in airstrike on Yemen hospital
A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organization, which supports...
Mar 26, 2019

Tavares has come as advertised, and then some, in special 1st season with Leafs
TORONTO - Morgan Rielly had a good idea of what the Toronto Maple Leafs were getting in John Tavares the player. What impresses him even more - if that’s possible considering the star centreR...
Mar 26, 2019

Bellator champion Rory MacDonald walking a different path these days
TORONTO - Rory (Red King) MacDonald was broken physically and mentally after his 2015 loss to then-UFC champion (Ruthless) Robbie Lawler at UFC 189. “My life was kind of going in a downward dire...
Mar 26, 2019
Study says B.C.'s housing policies mean drug users can be targeted for eviction
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s housing policies are allowing landlords to evict drug users in Vancouver’s rooming houses and there’s little or no recourse for people to defend themse...
Mar 26, 2019
Court rejects lawyer's bid to save dangerous pit bull from euthanasia
MONTREAL - A judge on Tuesday rejected a legal bid from a prominent Montreal lawyer and a U.S. animal shelter to save a pit bull-type dog from euthanasia after it attacked six people last August, incl...
Mar 26, 2019

Liberal premier calls Prince Edward Island election for April 23
CHARLOTTETOWN - P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan called an early election Tuesday night, announcing an April 23 vote that polls suggest could produce Canada’s first Green Party government. “...
Mar 26, 2019

Independent probe sought in heavy-handed intervention by Montreal subway inspectors
MONTREAL - A Montreal man who was beaten by transit inspectors in a ticketing attempt captured on a bystander video this month broke his silence Tuesday, criticizing what he said was an excessive use ...
Mar 26, 2019