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Toronto FC goes local and then global in first two rounds of MLS SuperDraft
Toronto FC went local and then global in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft, choosing Canadian defender Nyal Higgins before picking players from Nigeria, Senegal and Denmark. The 21-year-old Higgins, a native ...
Jan 9, 2020
Prosecutors raid lawyer's office where Ghosn worked on case
Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday raided a Japanese lawyer's office where former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn had visited regularly before skipping bail last week and fleeing to Lebanon. Japanese news fo...
Jan 9, 2020
Former NBA star Charles Barkley donates $1M to Miles College
FAIRFIELD, Ala. - Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to historically black Miles College. The Basketball Hall of Famer and former Auburn star told interim president Bobbie Knight about the donatio...
Jan 9, 2020
Canadian world junior players on the move ahead of CHL trade deadlines
The Moncton Wildcats showed this week they are serious about chasing the Memorial Cup. Director of hockey operations Ritchie Thibeau proved as much by orchestrating five separate deals, including a bl...
Jan 9, 2020
After a month in Australia, two Manitoba fire experts arrive home
WINNIPEG - Some of the first Canadian wildfire experts to help out in Australia are back home. Gerry Rosset and Andrew Prokopchuk, two Manitoba conservation officers, landed at the Winn...
Jan 9, 2020
Bombers' coach has sights set on winning another Grey Cup, not repeating
Mike O'Shea has moved on from the euphoria of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' 2019 Grey Cup victory. Winnipeg ended its dubious Grey Cup drought with a stunning 33-12 victory over the favoured Hamilto...
Jan 9, 2020
Official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies
PHOENIX - An elected official in metro Phoenix resigned Tuesday, months after being charged with running a human smuggling operation that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to give up their...
Jan 9, 2020
AHS reviewing helicopter operations to determine future service options
Alberta Health Services is reviewing it's Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), including those that serve Grande Prairie.Gordon Bates, the Associate Executive Director of Provincial Air Ambul...
Jan 9, 2020
Police, Secret Service mum after new incident at Mar-a-Lago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - There was an unspecified incident involving the Secret Service at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, but authorities would not say Tuesday what happened - the...
Jan 9, 2020
Iranian-Canadian man on day trip to U.S. day says he faced discrimination
VANCOUVER - Sam Sadr's first trip to the United States from his home in North Vancouver was supposed to be a relaxing getaway but he says his birth in Iran made him a target at the border, where ...
Jan 9, 2020