Category Archives: Canadian Press
TFC's conference battle with Orlando will be game No. 100 for Hagglund
TORONTO - Nick Hagglund’s highlight package for Toronto FC would include his huge header goal against Montreal in the 2016 playoffs, and the team’s MLS Cup victory a year later. But the 25...
Jul 13, 2018
Kim takes 4-shot lead at weather-delayed John Deere Classic
SILVIS, Ill. - Michael Kim took a four-shot lead Friday at the John Deere Classic in the Quad Cities, which was suspended twice because of weather concerns. Kim, who is winless in 84 career PGA Tour s...
Jul 13, 2018
Toronto studying how motorcyclists can drive between lanes of traffic at red lights
TORONTO - The City of Toronto is studying the possibility of allowing motorcyclists to move between lanes of traffic while at a red light, a practice that advocates say would increase safety for those...
Jul 13, 2018
2 purported sons of Charles Manson out of battle over estate
LOS ANGELES - Two men who claimed the most direct line of descent to murder mastermind Charles Manson were eliminated Friday from the bitter battle over his estate. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ...
Jul 13, 2018
B.C. says local governments can regulate pot growth on agricultural land
VANCOUVER - Local and Indigenous governments in British Columbia will be permitted to prevent marijuana production in their communities on land that is part of the Agricultural Land Reserve, but with ...
Jul 13, 2018
Corporations market at World Cup despite absence of US
MOSCOW - Budweiser has a boat on the Moscow River and a disco. Coke set up an interactive sculpture-video installation in Gorky Park and entertained 5,000 guests during the monthlong tournament. Visa ...
Jul 13, 2018
2008 beheading on Greyhound bus cited for drop in Saskatchewan bus ridership
REGINA - The minister for Saskatchewan’s Crown Investments Corp. says a beheading on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba 10 years ago was the beginning of a steep decline in bus ridership in his provinc...
Jul 13, 2018
UK: Man gets life in prison for promoting Prince George plot
LONDON - An alleged Islamic State group supporter who encouraged attacks on 4-year-old Prince George of Britain has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years. Husnain Rashid maintain...
Jul 13, 2018
Canada Post supervisor visits woman after mail carrier pilfered her tomatoes
MONTREAL - Canada Post says a supervisor has apologized in person to a Montreal woman whose tomatoes were pilfered by a mail carrier. Spokesman Jon Hamilton says in an email to The Canadian Press the ...
Jul 13, 2018
Residents of northern Ontario community return home as forest fires continue to burn
TORONTO - The mayor of a northern Ontario community says residents have been allowed to return to homes they were forced to leave earlier this week as forest fires burned nearby. But Lorie Hunter, the...
Jul 13, 2018