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Toronto forward Natalie Spooner out of PWHL playoffs with knee injury
Toronto star forward Natalie Spooner is out for the Professional Women's Hockey League playoffs with a knee injury. The PWHL team placed Spooner on long-term injured reserve Wednesday after she collid...
May 15, 2024
Ottawa to acquire Quebec Bridge from CN, will spend $1 billion on span over 25 years
QUEBEC - The federal government says it has reached a deal with Canadian National Railway Company to acquire the historic Quebec Bridge. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Quebec City tha...
May 15, 2024
Toronto FC hit hard by suspensions following initial review of NYCFC post-game melee
Toronto FC will be missing its coach and four players through suspension for Wednesday's game at Nashville SC after the MLS Disciplinary Committee handed down its initial verdict on Saturday night's u...
May 15, 2024
Toronto Argonauts move quarterback Chad Kelly to suspended list
GUELPH, Ont. - The Toronto Argonauts placed quarterback Chad Kelly on the suspended list Tuesday while Canadian defensive back Josh Hagerty was among seven players released by the CFL club. The placem...
May 15, 2024
Slovakia's prime minister wounded in shooting
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital. Reports on TA3, a Slovakian TV station, said that Fico, ...
May 15, 2024
Restorative Justice dealt with 34 cases, 31 agreements in 2023
Restorative Justice had a busy year mediating meetings and fostering agreements in 2023.The program, run through the Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District branch (CMHA Vernon), coordi...
May 15, 2024
Wong sworn in as Singapore's fourth prime minister, as Lee Hsien Loong bows out after 20 years
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Singapore's deputy leader Lawrence Wong was sworn in Wednesday as the nation's fourth prime minister in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure contin...
May 15, 2024
Biden won’t participate in debates sponsored by nonpartisan commission, proposes 2 Trump debates
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday on social media that he won't participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan commission, instead challenging Republican Donald Trum...
May 15, 2024
Canadian historian Michael Ignatieff wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
MADRID (AP) - Canadian historian and writer Michael Ignatieff has won Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for his "critical reflections on the major conflicts of our time," prize or...
May 15, 2024
Bethel-Thompson, Ford forging QB partnership at Elks training camp
EDMONTON - It has all the ingredients of an awkward partnership. But, so far, the Edmonton Elks' quarterbacking tandem of McLeod Bethel-Thompson and Tre Ford are doing and saying all the right things....
May 15, 2024
