Category Archives: Canadian Press
Toronto Defiant Overwatch academy team to be known as the Montreal Rebellion
MONTREAL - The Toronto Defiant’s Overwatch academy team will be known as the Montreal Rebellion. The Montreal feeder team will play in the Overwatch Contenders League. The squad will be housed i...
Feb 19, 2019
Cherry enjoys Hurricanes' "Bunch of Jerks" shirts but still against celebrations
Don Cherry doesn’t think the Carolina Hurricanes are very funny. But he admits their shirts are. The TV hockey commentator called the Hurricanes a “bunch of jerks” on Saturday night ...
Feb 19, 2019

Mother accused of murdering daughters had reached breaking point: defence
LAVAL, Que. - People who saw a Quebec woman on the day she is alleged to have killed her two daughters testified that she acted “as if she was in a coma” and was “disconnected from r...
Feb 19, 2019

Trump wants California to pay back billions for bullet train
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California’s high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 b...
Feb 19, 2019
Canadian teenager Auger-Aliassime shocks No. 16 Fognini at Rio Open
RIO DE JANEIRO - Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 upset of second-seed Fabio Fognini on Tuesday at the Rio Open tennis tournament. Fognini, ranked No. 16 in the world, is t...
Feb 19, 2019

NEB rejects call to expand scope of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion review
CALGARY - The National Energy Board is rejecting a call made by an environmental group last month to greatly expand the scope of its reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Stand.ear...
Feb 19, 2019
Detroit Council rejects car stunt due to Confederate flag
DETROIT - The Detroit City Council has banned a hot rod and custom car show from allowing a stunt jump to take place because some of the participating vehicles have carried Confederate imagery. The De...
Feb 19, 2019

Canada's bobsleigh team races World Cup on Calgary home track facing closure
CALGARY - Canada’s skeleton and bobsled teams will race a World Cup on their home track under a cloud of uncertainty. Calgary’s 33-year-old sliding track, built for the 1988 Winter Olympic...
Feb 19, 2019

DPAs: Meet the legal tool central to the Prime Minister's Office controversy
OTTAWA - Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin sought to be the first firm to avoid criminal proceedings by negotiating a “remediation agreement” - using a new legal tool that eit...
Feb 19, 2019

Speaker apologizes for apparent racial profiling incident on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan has apologized for an apparent case of racial profiling on Parliament Hill, saying all who visit the precinct must be treated with fairness, dignity and r...
Feb 19, 2019