Author Archives:
Toronto FC coach has to watch young sons go into quarantine from a distance
Forced to play games south of the border due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney has had to watch from a distance as his family back home went into lockdown. Vanney's 12-year...
Oct 16, 2020
Awash in red ink: US posts record $3.1T 2020 budget deficit
WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit hit an all-time high of $3.1 trillion in the 2020 budget year, more than double the previous record, as the coronavirus pandemic shrank revenues and sent spendi...
Oct 16, 2020
Ottawa Senators sign forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal is worth US$735,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the American Hockey League. The 23-year-o...
Oct 16, 2020
City ready for winter weather
MEDICINE HAT, AB- With the city expected to get its first taste of winter this weekend, the City of Medicine Hat says they have their equipment ready for whatever mother nature brings. "We started pre...
Oct 16, 2020
'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later
MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...
Oct 16, 2020
UK says EU trade talks 'over' but bloc sees room for a deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a "fundamental" change of position from the bloc, as th...
Oct 16, 2020
UK's Johnson threatens to impose restrictions on Manchester
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to force the Greater Manchester region into the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions after local officials refused to accept the government's fin...
Oct 16, 2020
New quantum centre in Ontario to probe nature's deepest and weirdest secrets
WATERLOO, Ont. - Canadian research will probe some of the deepest and strangest properties of the world within the atom in a new centre for the study of quantum matter. Quantum matter is the basic sci...
Oct 16, 2020
N.S., B.C. police watchdogs to probe officers' destruction of evidence in Assoun case
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is asking its British Columbia equivalent to assist in probing whether officers broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of a wrongfully con...
Oct 16, 2020
Flames sign forward Andrew Mangiapane to two-year deal with AAV of US$2,425 million
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames have signed forward Andrew Mangiapane to a two year contract with an annual average value of US$2,425 million. Mangiapane, a native of Toronto, set career highs with 17 go...
Oct 16, 2020