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Show me the money: Toronto FC sells star striker Sebastian Giovinco to Saudi club
TORONTO - The Sebastian Giovinco era in Toronto is over. Toronto FC, unwilling to meet the Italian international's contract demands, sold Giovinco to Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal FC on Wednesday. ...
Feb 01, 2019
Former chief Charles Weaselhead elected University of Lethbridge chancellor
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An Indigenous man has been elected as chancellor of the University of Lethbridge for the first time in the school's 52-year history. Charles Weaselhead is the former chie...
Feb 01, 2019
Vice Media to cut 10 per cent of workforce
NEW YORK - Vice Media is cutting 250 jobs globally as it seeks to achieve profitability. It is the latest round of layoffs as the media industry contracts. The cuts affect about 10 per cent of Vice's ...
Feb 01, 2019
Her knees 'broken beyond repair,' Vonn retiring after worlds
Lindsey Vonn transcended her sport in a way only a handful of Olympic athletes could even imagine. She was about more than skiing. She was about more than medals. She was about more than winning. She ...
Feb 01, 2019
Her knees 'broken beyond repair,' Vonn retiring after worlds
Lindsey Vonn transcended her sport in a way only a handful of Olympic athletes could even imagine. She was about more than skiing. She was about more than medals. She was about more than winning. She ...
Feb 01, 2019
Virginia governor's 1984 yearbook page shows racist imagery
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's page in his 1984 medical school yearbook contains a photo of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of t...
Feb 01, 2019
'Joy sprang out of our grief:' Parents of misidentified Bronco describe mix-up
MELFORT, Sask. - The parents of a Humboldt Bronco hockey player misidentified after a deadly crash on a Saskatchewan highway say they weren't convinced the battered body lying in the funeral...
Feb 01, 2019
RCMP release more photos of suspected gunman in transit officer shooting
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP have released more photos of the suspected gunman in a shooting that injured a transit officer in Surrey, B.C. Police say they are still searching for Daon Gord...
Feb 01, 2019
Scheer criticizes Trudeau on immigration, argues system's integrity damaged
SURREY, B.C. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the prime minister damaged the integrity of Canada's immigration system when he tweeted two years ago that Canadians will welc...
Feb 01, 2019
Opera singer Daniels, husband arrested on sex assault charge
DALLAS - A renowned opera singer and University of Michigan professor is in police custody on allegations that he and his husband in 2010 sexually assaulted a singer in Houston. Countertenor David Dan...
Feb 01, 2019