Category Archives: Canadian Press
Swimmer Ryan Lochte suspended until July 2019 for use of IV
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Ryan Lochte posted a photo for the world to see, and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency noticed. It got him suspended - again. The longtime U.S. swimming star has been banned from com...
Jul 23, 2018
Sears retirees ask court for retailer's remaining funds for pension deficit
Sears Canada Inc. retirees want an Ontario court to award them the remaining roughly $135 million of the former department store chain’s cash to help fund their pension shortfall. Some 18,000 Se...
Jul 23, 2018
Swiss star Roger Federer drops out of Rogers Cup in Toronto
TORONTO - Roger Federer has dropped out of the Rogers Cup next month in Toronto. The world No. 2 from Switzerland lost against Germany’s Alexander Zverev in the final of the event last year in M...
Jul 23, 2018
No plans to evict protest camp across from legislature: Regina police chief
Regina’s police chief says there are no plans to clear a protest camp across from the Saskatchewan legislature unless ordered to do so by a court. Chief Evan Bray said he would comply with any c...
Jul 23, 2018
Michael Strahan, Sara Haines to host GMA's new third hour
NEW YORK - Viewers will see two familiar faces when “Good Morning America” launches its third hour. ABC News on Monday announced Michael Strahan and Sara Haines will co-host “GMA Day...
Jul 23, 2018
Coroner's inquest called into death of B.C. RCMP officer in Taser case
VICTORIA - A coroner’s inquest will be held into the suicide of an RCMP officer who was in charge of media relations in British Columbia when Robert Dziekanski was fatally stunned with a Taser a...
Jul 23, 2018
NY Daily News slashes newsroom staffing in half
NEW YORK - The New York tabloid Daily News cut half of its newsroom staff Monday including Jim Rich, the paper’s editor in chief. The paper was sold to Tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owne...
Jul 23, 2018
Canadian middle-distance runner Knight turns pro, signs with Reebok
TORONTO - When Justyn Knight ran an impressive 5,000-metre time as a high schooler at St. Michael’s College, his coach Frank Bergin told him to clear out a drawer to store all the college recrui...
Jul 23, 2018
Husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen wins Hemingway contest
KEY WEST, Fla. - After eight previous tries, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen has won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held in the city where writer Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the...
Jul 23, 2018
'Dukes of Hazzard' star pleads guilty in touching case
WALTHAM, Mass. - A former star of “The Dukes of Hazzard” television show has pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching two women in the cast of a musical in Massachusetts in which he star...
Jul 23, 2018