Category Archives: Canadian Press
Djokovic splits up with his longtime coach Vajda
BELGRADE, Serbia - Novak Djokovic has split with his longtime coach Marian Vajda and two other team members, saying he wants to find “the winning spark on the court again.” Djokovic said o...
May 05, 2017
How one of Canada's busiest ERs made progress against overcrowding
Five times a day, senior managers at Toronto’s North York General get alerts on the ever-rising tide of patients arriving at the hospital’s emergency department. The updates are colour-cod...
May 05, 2017
The Latest: France's election commission studies hack attack
PARIS - The Latest on the French presidential runoff on Sunday (all times local): 1:30 a.m. France’s election campaign commission is examining a hacking attack on candidate Emmanuel Macron’...
May 05, 2017
Toronto Wolfpack to showcase rugby league, the beautiful and brutal game
TORONTO - Brian Noble calls rugby league “the NFL with MMA.” “I think it’s the best game in the world,” said Noble, a former Great Britain player and coach who now serves...
May 05, 2017
N.S. police chief suspended with pay after being charged with sexual assault
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A police chief in Nova Scotia has been suspended with pay for 60 days after being charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. The police commission in Bridgewater passed a...
May 05, 2017
Nova Scotia premier commits $34 million to mental health services, clinicians
HALIFAX - In a province where it can take months to see a mental-health clinician, Keith MacIsaac wanted to let Premier Stephen McNeil know how facilities such as Halifax-based Laing House are vital t...
May 05, 2017
Top court upholds death sentence for rape that shocked India
NEW DELHI - India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the India...
May 05, 2017
Last survivor of Hindenburg disaster: 'The air was on fire'
TRENTON, N.J. - Wind and thunderstorms had delayed the Hindenburg’s arrival in New Jersey from Germany on May 6, 1937. The father of 8-year-old Werner Doehner headed to his cabin after using his...
May 05, 2017
As rivers recede, another death from Midwest flooding
ST. LOUIS - A man has died after his vehicle was swept off a road near a flooded creek in Missouri, marking the 10th death blamed on flooding in the Midwest, authorities said Friday. The Missouri Stat...
May 05, 2017
Belgian PM interview: push Brexit button and May must pay
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says British expectations in its divorce proceedings from the European Union are “not realistic” and sent a clear warning that Britain will not escape...
May 05, 2017