Category Archives: Canadian Press
Starring role beckons for Canada's Alphonso Davies at Bayern Munich
BERLIN - Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies could be thrown in at the deep end. The 18-year-old winger will likely get his first taste of Bundesliga action for Bayern Munich in the coming weeks, if not...
Jan 16, 2019
Zubkov among 4 Russian bobsledders banned for Olympic doping
MOSCOW - Five years after the Sochi Olympics, the man who carried the Russian flag at the opening ceremony has been banned for doping at those games. Alexander Zubkov, already stripped of two Olympic ...
Jan 16, 2019
Report: Turkey seeks warrant for NBA player Enes Kanter
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish prosecutors are seeking an international arrest warrant for New York Knicks player Enes Kanter, accusing him of membership in a terror organization. Sabah newspaper says the I...
Jan 16, 2019
Jason Reitman to direct Ghostbusters sequel for summer 2020
LOS ANGELES - Ivan Reitman is passing the Ghostbusters torch to his son. Four-time Oscar nominee Jason Reitman is set to direct a new installment in the Ghostbusters series for Sony Pictures set to co...
Jan 16, 2019
Sears survives a near-death experience, but for how long?
NEW YORK - Sears will live on - at least for now. Its chairman and biggest shareholder, Eddie Lampert, won tentative approval for a $5 billion plan to keep the ailing, 132-year-old department-store ch...
Jan 16, 2019
Toronto FC looks to return to stingy ways on defence with addition of Ciman
TORONTO - After seeing his team concede a franchise-worst 64 goals last season, Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney is looking forward to integrating veteran defender Laurent Ciman into his backline. A ...
Jan 16, 2019
EU leaders plead with UK to get its act together on Brexit
STRASBOURG, France - European Union leaders were pleading Wednesday with the U.K. to finally get its act together on Brexit, end internal strife and come up with a realistic plan to leave the bloc - w...
Jan 16, 2019
Spain: DNA sample confirms 2-year-old fell into borehole
MADRID - Spanish rescuers working against the clock to find a 2-year-old boy who’s been missing for three days say they have found DNA samples of the boy confirming his parents’ account th...
Jan 16, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 16
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 16 --- OTTAWA POLICE TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON BUS CRASH Ottawa police will provide an update today on the ongoing investigation into last week’s double-d...
Jan 16, 2019
Lametti appointment raises hope for less restrictive assisted dying law
OTTAWA - The appointment of David Lametti as Canada’s new justice minister has given new hope to those who believe the Trudeau government’s law on medically assisted dying is too restricti...
Jan 16, 2019