Category Archives: Canadian Press
3 get prison in college basketball recruiting scandal
NEW YORK - A former Adidas executive and two others who paid families to persuade top college basketball recruits to play for schools sponsored by the shoe brand were sentenced to prison Tuesday by a ...
Mar 05, 2019

Deadline nearing to file appeal of Bissonnette's sentence for mosque murders
QUEBEC - Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers have less than a week left to decide whether to appeal the sentence handed down to the gunman who killed six men in a Quebec City mosque. Alexandre Bisso...
Mar 05, 2019
Real Madrid's European reign ends with shock loss to Ajax
MADRID - Kings of Europe no more. Real Madrid’s Champions League reign is over. More than 1,000 days since winning the first of three consecutive European titles, Real Madrid unprecedented era o...
Mar 05, 2019

Obama urges action on climate change, inequality in Western Canada speeches
CALGARY - Former United States president Barack Obama called on global leaders to pay attention to the ways the world is rapidly transforming, urging action on climate change and wealth inequality in ...
Mar 05, 2019
Toronto Arrows forwards Mike Sheppard, Peter Milazzo make MLR team of the week
Toronto Arrows forwards Mike Sheppard and Peter Milazzo have been named to Major League Rugby’s First XV for Week 6. The Glendale Raptors, who blanked the Arrows 22-0 in the Colorado chill, won ...
Mar 05, 2019
Canadian RJ Barrett nominated for NCAA top shooting guard honour
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke freshman RJ Barrett has been named one of five finalists for the 2019 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award. The native of Mississauga, Ont., entered Tuesday’s action a...
Mar 05, 2019
Parents of teen killed in Winnipeg home invasion came to Canada for better life
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician says the parents of a teenager killed during a random home invasion came to the province looking for the Canadian dream - a better life for their only child. “Wh...
Mar 05, 2019
Lawsuit on 'takeover' of Miss America pageant is withdrawn
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A lawsuit claiming “an illegal and bad-faith takeover” of the Miss America Organization was withdrawn Monday for financial reasons, with the pageant responding it pro...
Mar 05, 2019
Ex-police officer charged with planting gun near injured man
BALTIMORE - A retired Baltimore police sergeant is charged with planting a pellet gun at the scene of an arrest and telling another officer who is currently behind bars for corruption to lie about the...
Mar 05, 2019
Teacher wins $10K for reading fine print in insurance policy
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Florida travel insurance company has awarded a Georgia high school teacher $10,000 for reading the fine print in a policy she recently purchased. A Squaremouth statement says ...
Mar 05, 2019