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Playoffs for HoopQueens, Canadian semi-pro women's basketball league, start Sunday
The WNBA is coming to Toronto in 2026, but professional women's basketball has been in Canada for years. HoopQueens, a semi-pro league with players from across Canada, will hold the semifinals of its ...
Jun 21, 2024
Homelessness: Quebec, Ottawa announce $115 million for emergency housing in Montreal
MONTREAL - The federal and Quebec governments have announced nearly $60 million a year for the next two years to get unhoused Montrealers a roof over their heads. Ottawa and Quebec are putting up $57....
Jun 21, 2024
Canada rugby 7s men end 29-game losing run with win at last-chance Olympic qualifier
MONACO - Canada's men ended a 29-game losing streak with a much-needed 31-12 win Friday over Uganda at the World Rugby Sevens Repechage tournament. Twelve men's and 12 women's teams are competing for ...
Jun 21, 2024
Ontario public school teachers are protected from unreasonable searches: top court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says Ontario public school board teachers have a Charter-protected right against unreasonable search and seizure in the workplace. The top court's decision comes t...
Jun 21, 2024
Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump ally Steve Bannon has asked the Supreme Court to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the...
Jun 21, 2024
NY prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him
NEW YORK (AP) - Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the former president from criticizing jurors, court staff ...
Jun 21, 2024
Canada lays more sanctions on Haiti gang leaders as violence surges
OTTAWA - Canada is imposing economic sanctions on three more people for their involvement in worsening violence in Haiti. Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly made the announcement Friday, saying Otta...
Jun 21, 2024
The Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun ri...
Jun 21, 2024
Prosecution rests in the trial of a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend
BOSTON (AP) - Prosecutors rested Friday in the case of a woman accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank. Karen Read has pleaded not gu...
Jun 21, 2024
Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre seeks to lead Quebec Liberal party
MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre is seeking the leadership of the Quebec Liberal party. Coderre made the announcement this morning in Quebec City, pitching himself as a seasoned politici...
Jun 21, 2024