Author Archives:
Joe Thornton on decision to sign with Maple Leafs: 'This team is ready to win now'
TORONTO - Joe Thornton had plenty of conversations concerning the next, and perhaps final, step in his illustrious NHL career.The 41-year-old picked the brains of former teammates Patrick Marleau and ...
Oct 18, 2020
Trump, Biden go on offence in states they're trying to flip
LAS VEGAS - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offence Sunday, with each campaigning in states they are trying to flip during the Nov. 3 election that is just over two weeks...
Oct 18, 2020
Fraser Health reports new COVID-19 outbreaks at care home and meat packing facility
SURREY, B.C. - Fraser Health has declared new outbreaks of COVID-19 at a meat processing facility in Surrey, B.C., and two area long-term care homes. The health authority says evidence of transmission...
Oct 18, 2020
Krkic, Urruti help Impact beat Inter Miami 2-1
HARRISON, N.J. - The Montreal Impact earned an important win as they kept their hopes for a playoff berth alive. Bojan Krkic scored and assisted on Maximiliano Urruti's late go-ahead goal in the Montr...
Oct 18, 2020
Millions more virus rapid tests, but are results reported?
WASHINGTON - After struggling to ramp up coronavirus testing, the U.S. can now screen several million people daily, thanks to a growing supply of rapid tests. But the boom comes with a new challenge: ...
Oct 18, 2020
Cruise ship rescues 24 people from boat off Florida coast
MIAMI - A Carnival Cruise Line ship rescued two dozen people, including two children, from a sinking boat 37 miles (about 60 kilometres) off the Florida coast, the cruise line reported Saturday. It wa...
Oct 18, 2020
Opposition parties gear up for next round of fight with Liberals over WE controversy
OTTAWA - Federal opposition parties are promising to keep fighting to get to the bottom of the WE controversy despite what they describe as Liberal threats and stonewalling. The topics will be front a...
Oct 18, 2020
Canada inches toward to 200,000 COVID-19 case mark, with most new cases in Quebec
Canada's COVID-19 caseload is nearing the 200,000 mark, with the majority of new infections in Quebec this weekend. Public health officials reported 1,803 new cases across the country today, for a tot...
Oct 18, 2020
Surrey RCMP respond to drug overdose involving five people
SURREY, B.C. - The RCMP say naloxone was used to help five people who overdosed after using drugs together in the early hours of Saturday morning. They say officers initially responded to a report of ...
Oct 18, 2020
N.S. calls on Ottawa to define a 'moderate livelihood,' as fishing dispute boils over
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is urging Ottawa to define what constitutes legal harvesting in a "moderate livelihood" fishery, after a dispute about Indigenous fishing treaty rights boi...
Oct 18, 2020