Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Minus Mitch: Maple Leafs head into new seasons with new look after Marner's departure
TORONTO - Craig Berube heard the term over and over last season. The Toronto Maple Leafs bench boss came to town knowing a quartet of star forwards would continue to be a constant focus - even after y...
Oct 06, 2025

Oilers sign captain Connor McDavid to two-year, US$25-million deal
EDMONTON - Connor McDavid is opening the Edmonton Oilers' championship window a little wider. The club agreed to a two-year, US$25-million contract extension with its superstar captain Monday, ending ...
Oct 06, 2025

Number of temporary worker applications fell as fine total increased, government says
OTTAWA - Ottawa ordered companies to pay almost $5 million in fines in the last fiscal year for failing to comply with the rules for temporary foreign worker permits, new government data shows. A new ...
Oct 06, 2025

Chicago and Illinois sue to stop Trump’s Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican a...
Oct 06, 2025

Finally healthy, Canada's Stephen Gogolev finds 'new energy and love' for skating
Stephen Gogolev contemplated hanging up his skates. He was once the next big Canadian hope in men's figure skating, a prodigy landing triple axels at age 10, until a massive growth spurt and recurring...
Oct 06, 2025

Chief justice says rule of law, judicial independence protect Canada from autocracy
OTTAWA - While Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it's "certainly a democratic superpower," Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Monday at a ceremony to open the Supreme Cou...
Oct 06, 2025

Beleaguered Israel-Premier Tech cycling team to rebrand in wake of recent protests
In the wake of recent protests, the beleaguered Israel-Premier Tech cycling team is rebranding and "moving away from its current Israeli identity." The team did not reveal its new name in a news relea...
Oct 06, 2025

Premature baby boy abandoned on porch of home on Montreal's South Shore
LONGUEUIL - Police say a premature baby boy was abandoned Sunday night outside a home on Montreal's South Shore. Longueuil police say someone left the boy on the porch of the home at around 11 p.m., r...
Oct 06, 2025

Clarification: Mideast-Wars-Gaza story
CAIRO (AP) - In a story published Oct. 6, 2025, The Associated Press reported that the 1973 war with Israel led to Egypt reclaiming the Sinai Peninsula. The story should have made clear that the war c...
Oct 06, 2025

Canada's last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization
BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) - Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each...
Oct 06, 2025