Category Archives: Canadian Press
Campaign targets sport specialization: 'Parents get caught up in peer pressure'
HALIFAX - Parents are being warned about the dangers of early specialization in sport, in a new campaign that says overfocusing on one-sport skills may burn out younger athletes. Carolyn Townsend, com...
Oct 24, 2016
Expat voting ban legit, Liberal government argues despite promised change
TORONTO - Allowing long-term Canadian expats to vote in federal elections is not a Constitutional requirement but a policy decision that Parliament has the right to make, the government plans to tell ...
Oct 24, 2016
Man blames drugs for kidnapping 5, next faces murder charges
FARMINGTON, Utah - A Utah man was sentenced Monday to 30 years to life in prison for tying up a family of five in a basement, clearing the way for him to face murder charges in Wyoming in the death of...
Oct 24, 2016
Genworth shares fall after agreeing to Chinese buyout offer
NEW YORK - A Chinese holding company has agreed to buy U.S. insurer Genworth Financial for about $2.7 billion, another example of China’s intense interest in American commerce. Genworth shares f...
Oct 24, 2016
'Serial' star Adnan Syed asks to be released from jail
BALTIMORE - A defendant awaiting retrial for the slaying of his high school girlfriend and whose story was the centre of a popular podcast is asking to be released from prison. Justin Brown, a lawyer ...
Oct 24, 2016
1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73
MINNEAPOLIS - Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n&...
Oct 24, 2016
New No. 1's struggle, Marchand still sizzling, Ladd quiet in Long Island
Big off-season moves in Calgary and Toronto to land a No. 1 goaltender haven’t gone well for either team so far. Plucked from St. Louis for a pair of draft picks, Brian Elliott was tasked with s...
Oct 24, 2016
Why a single piece of evidence mattered so much in Dennis Oland murder case
From the earliest days in Dennis Oland’s murder trial, the Crown faced an uphill battle to convince jurors that a precarious balance of circumstantial evidence added up to a guilty verdict. None...
Oct 24, 2016
Olympic bronze medallist MacLean announces retirement from competitive swimming
OTTAWA - Canada’s Brittany MacLean, who raced to an Olympic relay bronze at the 2016 Rio Games, announced her retirement from competitive swimming on Monday. MacLean made her Olympic debut at th...
Oct 24, 2016
Online literacy test for Ontario students cancelled due to cyberattack: EQAO
TORONTO - The Ontario agency tasked with administering the first online literacy test to tens of thousands of high school students in the province last week says it was forced to pull the plug by an &...
Oct 24, 2016