Category Archives: Canadian Press
Enough is enough. Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley unloads on troubled season
TORONTO - On first viewing, the opening goal conceded by Toronto FC in Saturday’s 4-2 loss to Los Angeles FC seemed typical of an MLS campaign gone awry. Diego Rossi’s speculative shot fro...
Sep 02, 2018

Candidate called to explain allegation of 'political interference' in policing
MONTREAL - A Coalition Avenir Quebec star candidate was forced to clarify his remarks on Sunday after a claim he that he’d witnessed political interference during his career as a police officer ...
Sep 02, 2018
Eric Lamaze headlines Canadian squad heading to World Equestrian Games
Olympic gold medallist Eric Lamaze will be making his seventh consecutive appearance for Team Canada at the World Equestrian Games next month. The 39 Canadians athletes who will compete in seven disci...
Sep 02, 2018

TV talker Jerry Springer to speak at Ohio Labor Day picnic
CINCINNATI - Long-time TV talk show host and former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer will highlight this year’s AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic at Coney Island near Cincinnati. Several Democratic nomine...
Sep 02, 2018

Canadian anthropological linguist creates concept languages for films
VANCOUVER - Typically when anthropology professor Christine Schreyer finishes concocting a new language for a film, it is eventually spoken by aliens from beyond the stars bearing messages of hope, pe...
Sep 02, 2018

Rights group: Strike on bus in Yemen is 'apparent war crime'
CAIRO - An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen that killed dozens of people last month is an “apparent war crime,” an internatio...
Sep 02, 2018
China police detain 46 after violent protest over schooling
BEIJING - Police in central China have detained 46 people who were part of a protest against a government plan to address overcrowded classrooms that escalated into violence. Police in the city of Lei...
Sep 02, 2018
US general assumes NATO command in Afghanistan
KABUL - U.S. Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan in a handover ceremony on Sunday. Miller took over from Gen. John Nicholson, who held the post f...
Sep 02, 2018

Ukrainian city remembers Jews on Holocaust anniversary
LVIV, Ukraine - The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major centre of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population ...
Sep 02, 2018
Suicide car bombing in Somalia's capital kills at least 6
NAIROBI, Kenya - At least six people were killed, including two children, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital, autho...
Sep 02, 2018