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No Bojan, Jorge Corrales on Montreal Impact's Champions League roster
MONTREAL - Some big names will be missing from the lineup when the Montreal Impact return to the field. The club has announced its 25-man roster for next week's CONCACAF Champions League game in Orlan...
Dec 07, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 07, 2020
2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd
When the coronavirus pushed people out of the world and into homebound isolation, the small-screen's role grew bigger than ever. Television and its mobile iterations bore witness to a tumultuous year ...
Dec 07, 2020
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place...
Dec 07, 2020
Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
NEW YORK - Bob Woodward's next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency's ending. Woodward is teaming with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa on a book about the waning day...
Dec 07, 2020
Adin Steinsaltz, groundbreaking Talmud translator, dies
JERUSALEM - Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, a prolific Jewish scholar who spent 45 years compiling a monumental and ground-breaking translation of the Talmud, has died. He was 83. The Steinsaltz Ce...
Dec 07, 2020
Licence plate expiration stickers set to expire in Alberta
Beginning next year, Alberta will move toward reflective licence plates, eliminating the need for expiry stickers.The stickers that mark the month and year of registration won't be issued in 2021, nor...
Dec 07, 2020
UAE royal buys stake in controversial Israeli soccer club
JERUSALEM - Israel's Beitar Jerusalem soccer club, which has gained notoriety for its racist fans and refusal to have an Arab player on its roster, announced on Monday that a member of the Emirati rul...
Dec 07, 2020
Toronto FC midfielder Alejandro Pozuelo named Major League Soccer MVP
Toronto FC playmaker Alejandro Pozuelo is Major League Soccer's MVP for 2020.The 29-year-old attacking midfielder from Seville, Spain, was named Landon Donovan MLS MVP over Philadelphia goalkeeper And...
Dec 07, 2020
Liberals set to kick-start talks on new child-care system and funding, Hussen says
OTTAWA - Families Minister Ahmed Hussen says it will be mostly up to the provinces and territories how to spend hundreds of millions in new funding on their child-care workforce.The Liberals unveiled ...
Dec 07, 2020