Category Archives: Canadian Press
Fourteen-year-old Gogolev poised to make Canadian figure skating history
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Stephen Gogolev might be two years too young to compete internationally as a senior skater. But he’s poised to become the youngest skater ever to capture a Canadian senior tit...
Jan 18, 2019
Canada's Mikael Kingsbury finally pushed off top of podium at World Cup
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Mikael Kingsbury’s perfect start to the moguls season finally came to an end on Friday. The Canadian settled for fifth in a World Cup event, marking the first time in five st...
Jan 18, 2019
Team World way in front of North America at Continental Cup
LAS VEGAS - Team North America is on the board at the Continental Cup, but Team World remains in command at the annual team curling event. Team World leads 13.5 to 4.5 after winning two of three men&#...
Jan 18, 2019
Elderly Helmut Oberlander again appeals stripping of citizenship
TORONTO - A 94-year-old man found to have lied about his membership in a Second World War Nazi death squad has launched yet another appeal of the government’s decision to strip him of his Canadi...
Jan 18, 2019
Canadian charged with indecency in Australia after flight from Hong Kong
ADELAIDE, Australia - A Canadian man is accused of performing indecent acts on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia. Australian Federal Police arrested the 28-year-old man on arrival in Adelaide on Th...
Jan 18, 2019
Hamilton's Forge FC signs Cameroon international defender Bertrand Owundi
Hamilton’s Forge FC has made Cameroon international defender Bertrand Owundi its first international signing. Owundi, 25, signed with Minnesota United last February but didn’t see time wit...
Jan 18, 2019
Saskatchewan Roughriders promote O'Day to GM, VP of football operations
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders have promoted Jeremy O’Day to GM and vice-president of football operations. The Riders made the move Friday prior to president/CEO Craig Reynolds’s ne...
Jan 18, 2019
Accused in slaying of wife at long-term care centre told nurse he was responsible
MONTREAL - Two witnesses at the trial of a Montreal man accused of killing his ailing wife told a jury Friday the accused admitted to taking the woman’s life. Linda Desgagne, a senior nurse at t...
Jan 18, 2019
Saskatchewan Roughriders promote O'Day to GM, VP of football operations
Jeremy O’Day wasted no time making his first decision as the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ general manager/vice-president of football operations. One of the Riders’ most pressing needs t...
Jan 18, 2019
Alphonso Davies watches from Bayern Munich bench as Bundesliga resumes play
SINSHEIM, Germany - Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies watched from the bench Friday as Bayern Munich defeated TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 3-1 to mark the Bundesliga’s return to action after its traditio...
Jan 18, 2019