Category Archives: Canadian Press
Jozy Altidore wins US Player of Year award
SAN FRANCISCO - Forward Jozy Altidore has won the U.S. Player of the Year Award for the second time. Altidore, who plays for Toronto in Major League Soccer, received 52 first-place votes and 223 point...
Dec 22, 2016
Anthony Bourdain has 'contempt' for Trump hotel restaurateur
NEW YORK - A restaurant in President-elect Donald Trump’s Washington hotel will remain “Parts Unknown” to celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain tells foodie-focused w...
Dec 22, 2016
Argentina court indicts Bieber over attack on photographer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A court in Argentina has indicted Justin Bieber for allegedly sending his bodyguards to beat up a photographer and take his camera equipment outside a Buenos Aires nightclub ...
Dec 22, 2016
Defiance, not fear, as Berlin Christmas market reopens
Berlin stall holder Axel Kaiser recalls hearing a “dull bang” and seeing a nearby wooden Christmas market stand smashed to pieces by a truck. In the next few minutes, he helped tend to doz...
Dec 22, 2016
Ottawa Senators sign Czech centre Filip Chlapik to entry-level contract
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed centre Filip Chlapik to a three-year entry-level contract. Chlapik, 19, leads the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Charlottetown Islanders with 44 poi...
Dec 22, 2016
Manitoba politician disciplined in harassment probe wants full reinstatement
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician who was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint is taking sensitivity training and expects to be fully reinstated into the Opposition NDP caucus, his lawyer said ...
Dec 22, 2016
Toronto FC loses Will Johnson, Josh Williams to Orlando, Columbus
Toronto FC lost two players Thursday, with free agent midfielder Will Johnson headed to Orlando and defender Josh Williams taken by Columbus in Stage 2 of the MLS re-entry draft. A source confirmed Jo...
Dec 22, 2016
A look at the Canadians who will try to win gold at the world juniors
A look at the players who will try to win gold for Canada at the 2017 world junior hockey championship in Toronto and Montreal: GOALTENDERS Name: Carter Hart Age: 18 Team: Everett Silvertips Height/We...
Dec 22, 2016
'Silent strokes' leave traces on brain, up risk for full-blown stroke, dementia
TORONTO - Peter Chaban was up early doing dishes one morning in 2012 when he noticed there was water flowing over his hand - but he couldn’t feel it. Next thing he knew, he lost all sensation an...
Dec 22, 2016
Lawyer says Wahlberg movie unfair to Boston bomber's widow
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A lawyer for Katherine Russell, widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, says the new film “Patriots Day” is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up bef...
Dec 22, 2016