Category Archives: Canadian Press
LaVar Ball appears at WWE event, son LaMelo uses slur
LOS ANGELES - LaVar Ball has brought his Big Baller Brand from the basketball court to the wrestling ring. The outspoken father of NBA Draft No. 2 pick Lonzo Ball showed up with the newly-minted Los A...
Jun 27, 2017
Major League Soccer clears Canadian soccer star Cyle Larin to return to action
NEW YORK - Cyle Larin has been cleared to return by Major League Soccer. The Canadian international striker was sidelined after a drunk-driving charge, pending an assessment by the league’s Subs...
Jun 27, 2017
Trudeau says no security risks in Chinese takeover of Canadian satellite firm
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought Tuesday to assuage public fears and political complaints that the Liberal government’s decision to allow the Chinese takeover of a Canadian satellit...
Jun 27, 2017
N.S. information czar wants law to put onus on province to comply with rulings
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s government should obey an oversight body’s recommendations to release documents or have to convince a judge why they’re justified in refusing, the province...
Jun 27, 2017
New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US
PARIS - A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software - apparently sown in Ukraine - caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh cyber-as...
Jun 27, 2017
FIFA publishes Garcia report on 2018-2022 World Cup bidding
SOCHI, Russia - After years of intrigue about allegedly corrupt World Cup bidding, FIFA published an investigation report Tuesday that showed how voters exploited the murky system yet allowed Russia a...
Jun 27, 2017
WADA allows Russian doping agency to run drug testing again
KAZAN, Russia - The World Anti-Doping Agency has partly restored drug-testing duties to the Russian anti-doping agency. RUSADA was suspended in 2015 when its staff was accused of helping to cover up d...
Jun 27, 2017
Canada in the right on softwood dispute, will keep working with U.S.: Trudeau
OTTAWA - The fact that new anti-dumping duties slapped on Canadian softwood companies came in lower than expected has Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr hoping the United States is finally accepting ...
Jun 27, 2017
Robust US home price gains cool slightly in April
WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose at a healthy clip in April, though the increase slowed a bit from the previous two months. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price ...
Jun 27, 2017
Use of force was appropriate: report into Newfoundland police shooting death
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The police officer who shot and killed a man in his Newfoundland home used faulty judgment but appropriate force, says an inquiry head who chides the RCMP’s “less ...
Jun 27, 2017