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Captain Christine Sinclair to lead Canadian women at her fourth Olympic Games
Coach Bev Priestman named her 18-woman Tokyo Olympic soccer roster Wednesday with captain Christine Sinclair set to lead the eighth-ranked Canadians at her fourth Olympics. Canada won back-to-back bro...
Jun 23, 2021
Halifax police constable defends actions in cell death of man wearing spit hood
HALIFAX - A Halifax police constable who helped arrest a man who died of suffocation in a lockup cell says a spit hood was placed over the detainee's head because the man was angry and saliva was spot...
Jun 23, 2021
Ottawa Redblacks star receiver Brad Sinopoli retiring
Ottawa Redblacks receiver Brad Sinopoli is retiring from football. The longtime Canadian standout had 5,741 yards and 19 touchdowns in 139 games over five seasons with the Redblacks. The 33-year-old S...
Jun 23, 2021
Russia fires warning shots to deter UK warship in Black Sea
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian warship fired warning shots and a Russian warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer away from an area in the Black Sea near Crimea that Russia claims as its...
Jun 23, 2021
Court update: Sentence in weapons case, trial ordered in Slave Lake murder
Alberta Justice says a 15-month jail sentence has been given out in connection with a 2019 weapons arrest.Jeante Maddox was given the term, minus credit of 147 days for time already spent in custody, ...
Jun 23, 2021
Indigenous billboard artwork, second vaccine dose expansion: In The News for June 23
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 June 23 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jun 23, 2021
Countdown On: Opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics now just a month away
The buildup to the Tokyo Olympics - with a one-year postponement among the many challenges on a very long list - has felt more like a marathon than perhaps any Summer Games before it. All the heavy li...
Jun 23, 2021
MPs scramble to pass priority bills before summer but they could stall in Senate
OTTAWA - The House of Commons is poised to break today for the summer - and possibly for an election - after giving eleventh-hour approval to what the minority Liberal government considers its priorit...
Jun 23, 2021
Indigenous artwork to be displayed on billboards to honour residential schoolchildren
Cree artist Betty Albert woke in the middle of the night after learning remains of possibly 215 children had been found at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia and looked at a c...
Jun 23, 2021
Kobe Bryant's widow to settle lawsuit over deadly crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kobe Bryant's widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven other...
Jun 22, 2021