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B.C. basketball team to skip games over alleged mistreatment of trans player
NANAIMO, B.C. - A group of collegiate basketball players in B.C. say they will not play a pair of games against another team in their division this weekend due to alleged verbal and physical mistreatm...
Jan 08, 2025
Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court Wedn...
Jan 08, 2025
Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court Wedn...
Jan 08, 2025
Mustangs fall one win shy of history
The Melfort Mustangs had their 17-game win streak snapped on Tuesday night in Battlefords.Melfort fell 3-1 to the North Stars, as they came up just one win short of the SJHL modern-era record for most...
Jan 08, 2025
Body of British hiker found in Italian alps as search continues for second missing since Jan. 1
ROME (AP) - Rescue crews found the body of a British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian alps and were continuing to search for his friend who had also been missing since Jan. 1, Italy's rescue se...
Jan 08, 2025
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home
ROME (AP) - An Italian journalist detained in Iran since Dec. 19 and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was freed Wednesday and is heading home,...
Jan 08, 2025
In the news today: Liberals to talk leadership, Trump takeover threats spark concern
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals huddle ahead of leadership race Liberal MPs are meeting in Ottawa today for the first time since Prim...
Jan 08, 2025
Is Donald Trump kidding? Americans in Canada react to tariff, annexation threats
Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has been courting controversy in Canada since his election victory, with threats to impose whopping tariffs on Canadian goods and musings about the country becomin...
Jan 08, 2025
Liberal MPs gather for first time since Trudeau announced his resignation plans
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs are meeting in Ottawa today for the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he will step down. The national caucus meeting, set to take place both in person and o...
Jan 08, 2025
How Justin Trudeau captured the zeitgeist, and how he lost it
TORONTO - In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was "cool." In the year that followed his majority sweep into power, he appeared in the pages of Vogue, on the cover of a Marvel comic boo...
Jan 08, 2025