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Year in review: A look at news events in November and December 2022
A look at news events in November and the first half of December 2022: November 1 - Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. claimed his first American League Gold Glove Award as the leag...
Dec 16, 2022

CF Montréal signs goalkeeper Pantemis to 2023 deal with two option years
MONTREAL - CF Montral has signed goalkeeper James Pantemis to a new contract for the 2023 Major League Soccer season, with option years in 2024 and 2025. The 25-year-old Montreal native has played 36 ...
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in October 2022
A look at news events in October 2022: 1 - Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution calling its Ukraine annexation referendums illegal. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 10-1 with China,...
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in September 2022
A look at news events in September 2022: 1 - Health Canada approved Moderna's new COVID-19 booster vaccine. The bivalent vaccine targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the Omicr...
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in August 2022
A look at news events in August 2022: 2 - Vin Scully, Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Dodgers of Major League Baseball, died at the age of 94. Scully's dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer ...
Dec 16, 2022

'Driven, motivated' Zellweger looking for more hardware with Canada at world juniors
Olen Zellweger was firing puck after puck into the shooting cage one day following practice. Lost in the off-ice training - picking corners and snapping rubber off iron - time must have got away from ...
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in July 2022
A look at news events in July 2022: 3 - Historian Irving Abella died at 82. He was the co-author of a seminal book on the Canadian government's refusal to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust....
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in June 2022
A look at news events in June 2022: 1 - A jury awarded actor Johnny Depp $15 million in damages in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. The same jury awarded Heard $2 million in damages in h...
Dec 16, 2022

Year in review: A look at news events in May 2022
A look at news events in May 2022: 1 - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Canada's residential school system was a cultural genocide. And after listening to residential school survivors share ...
Dec 16, 2022

Mac Neil breaks own 50m backstroke world record at short course championships
MELBOURNE, Australia - Maggie Mac Neil repeated as champion in the women's 50-metre backstroke Friday at the short course swimming championships, taking the gold medal in a world-record time of 25.25 ...
Dec 16, 2022