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Canadian Jim (The Gentleman) Long loses at world darts championship
LONDON - Canadian Jim (Gentleman) Long lost his first-round game at the Paddy Power World Darts Championship on Tuesday, beaten 3-0 by England's James (Hillbilly) Hurrell. The 40-year-old Hurrell, ran...
Dec 17, 2024
Postal employees head back to work as union challenges strike intervention
MONTREAL - Canada Post trucks, conveyors and mail carriers are moving again after a month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers left letters and parcels in limbo. The Canada Industrial Relati...
Dec 17, 2024
Defensive lineman Deionte Knight among four Canadians signed by Ottawa Redblacks
OTTAWA - Defensive lineman Deionte Knight was among four Canadian players signed by the Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday. The six-foot-three, 278-pound Knight split last season between Toronto and Hamilton...
Dec 17, 2024
Patience pays off for Canada's Easton Cowan: 'No one really thought anything of him'
Easton Cowan had to bide his time. Taken in the second round of the Ontario Hockey League's 2021 priority selection draft by the London Knights, he was initially bumped down two levels at age 16 for m...
Dec 17, 2024
Father and stepmother sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 10-year-old girl in England
LONDON (AP) - The father and stepmother of a severely abused 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batoo...
Dec 17, 2024
CP NewsAlert: Housing crisis voted Canadian Press News Story of the Year
OTTAWA - The critical shortage of available and affordable housing is the 2024 Canadian Press News Story of the Year. It received votes from more than one-quarter of nearly 100 editors surveyed. The J...
Dec 17, 2024
Suspect in Gilgo Beach serial killings is charged in the death of a seventh woman
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - The New York architect facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings was charged Tuesday in the death of a seventh woman. Rex Heuermann was charg...
Dec 17, 2024
Canada’s quarterly population growth hits slowest pace since early 2022
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada estimates the country's population grew by 176,699 people between July 1 and Oct. 1, marking the slowest pace of growth since the first quarter of 2022. Canada's population ...
Dec 17, 2024
Freed anti-whaling activist Paul Watson won't face extradition by Denmark to Japan - lawyer
LONDON (AP) - Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Greenland on Tuesday and will not be extradited to Japan, the Danish Justice Ministry and defense lawyers said. Japan had asked...
Dec 17, 2024
StatCan set to release November inflation figures today
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is expected to release its November consumer price index report this morning. Economists polled by Reuters expect the annual inflation rate stayed at two per cent last month...
Dec 17, 2024