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Forward Ayo Akinola signs new deal with Toronto FC under MLS U-22 Initiative
Toronto FC has signed forward Ayo Akinola to a new contract that runs through 2024 with an option for 2025. Akinola's deal is part of the Major League Soccer U-22 Initiative which allows clubs to sign...
Jan 20, 2022
Kripps, Appiah, de Bruin have eyes on bobsled medal podium in Beijing
Reigning Olympic two-man champion Justin Kripps, and Cynthia Appiah and Christine de Bruin, who've been excellent on the women's monobob circuit this season, headline Canada's 18-member bobsled team f...
Jan 20, 2022
US: Swift, severe response if Russia sends troops to Ukraine
BERLIN (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a "swift, severe" response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends military forces into Ukraine. ...
Jan 20, 2022
Nanaimo has eyes on Canadian Track & Field Championships
NANAIMO - Some of the country's top athletes could be in the Harbour City in pursuit of their Olympic dreams.A required $100,000 commitment to host the 2024 Canadian Track & Field Championships le...
Jan 20, 2022
19-year-old woman sets record for solo global flight
KORTRIJK, Belgium (AP) - The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgiu...
Jan 20, 2022
Russia faces severe sanctions if it moves further into Ukraine, says Canada's Joly
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada will join allies in imposing severe sanctions on Russian officials if the country takes further military action to compromise Ukrainian sovere...
Jan 20, 2022
Joly wraps Ukraine trip amid fears of Russian invasion in standoff with West, NATO
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada has not decided whether it will help arm Ukraine's forces with military hardware after NATO ally Britain said Monday it would supply anti-tank...
Jan 20, 2022
Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults former pope
BERLIN (AP) - A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. The law fi...
Jan 20, 2022
Bombing in Pakistan's 2nd city Lahore kills 2, wounds 26
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A powerful bomb went off in a crowded bazar in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore on Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding 26 others, police and rescue offic...
Jan 20, 2022
Calls to scrap carbon capture tax credit, COVID treatments : In The News for Jan. 20
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 20 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jan 20, 2022