Category Archives: Canadian Press
Winnipeg man who left mother on floor for 3 weeks before her death gets 3 months
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man who left his 89-year-old mother on the floor of their home, covered in her own feces and urine until she died, was handed a three-month jail sentence Tuesday. Ronald Siwicki,...
Jul 10, 2018
Canada will not double its defence budget despite calls from Trump: Trudeau
RIGA, Latvia - Canada has no plans to double the amount of money it spends on its military, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday as he all but shrugged off Donald Trump’s persistent demand...
Jul 10, 2018
Monday's Games
Monday’s Games MLB American League Baltimore 5 N.Y. Yankees 4 (1st game) N.Y. Yankees 10 Baltimore 2 (2nd game) Boston 5 Texas 0 Tampa Bay 10 Detroit 9 (10 innings) Minnesota 3 Kansas City 1 Oak...
Jul 09, 2018
Scores and Schedule
Monday’s Games MLB American League Baltimore 5 N.Y. Yankees 4 (1st game) N.Y. Yankees 10 Baltimore 2 (2nd game) Boston 5 Texas 0 Tampa Bay 10 Detroit 9 (10 innings) Minnesota 3 Kansas City 1 Oak...
Jul 09, 2018
Nobel widow allowed to leave China after long house arrest
BERLIN - In the fall of 2010, Liu Xia travelled to a prison in northeast China to tell her husband, dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo, that he had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. That was the...
Jul 09, 2018
Stormy Daniels' strip club act bookends Trump's court reveal
WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump exercised his power by nominating Brett Kavanaugh Monday night at the White House, adult film star Stormy Daniels exercised hers about a mile away, wearing nothi...
Jul 09, 2018
'Everyone is safe' after daring rescue of 13 in Thai cave
MAE SAI, Thailand - “Everyone is safe.” With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a f...
Jul 09, 2018
Networks covering Supreme Court pick move to battle stations
NEW YORK - Television networks moved swiftly Monday from deciphering a mystery to setting up battle stations in their coverage of President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U....
Jul 09, 2018
It's official: Lakers announce LeBron James has signed
LOS ANGELES - It’s official. LeBron is a Laker. The Los Angeles Lakers announced the signing of LeBron James as a free agent Monday night, confirming the seismic shift created by the four-time N...
Jul 09, 2018
Woman on tractor promoting Canadian milk dies in collision with semi
SASKATOON - An Ontario woman who was on a cross-country tractor tour with her husband to promote Canada’s dairy industry has died in a collision with a semi north of Saskatoon. Bettina Schuurman...
Jul 09, 2018