Ryan Reynolds has confirmed the rumours – he is interested in buying the Ottawa Senators. The Canadian movie star spoke about possibly taking over the NHL club on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Reynolds is already co-owner of the Welsh soccer club Wrexham with fellow actor Rob McElhenney. Fallon […]
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) – Australia took an unassailable 2-0 lead against Slovakia on Tuesday in the first match of the Billie Jean King Cup in a strong start to its bid for a first title in 48 years in the biggest team event in women’s tennis. Storm Sanders and Ajla […]
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BERLIN (AP) – An ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as a “damage in the mind” in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF only two weeks before the opening of the soccer tournament in the Gulf state, highlighting concerns about the conservative country’s treatment of […]
By Graham Dunbar
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA (AP) – Picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago, FIFA’s president at the time Sepp Blatter said Tuesday, again citing a meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Platini for swaying key votes. The 86-year-old Blatter spoke with the Swiss newspaper group Tamedia in […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ninety-two per cent of licensed child-care operators in Ontario have signed on to the national $10-a-day child-care program, The Canadian Press has learned. Nov. 1 was the deadline for providers to decide – it had been extended from the original date of Sept. 1 to try to get higher uptake […]
Local CUPE members took part in a political protest on Friday, to fight a legislation which imposed a contract and made a strike illegal. The political action closed school locally and across the province on Friday and today. However, this morning Premier Doug Ford offered to repeal the legislation in […]
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A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job says protest sites “will be collapsed” starting Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on them. Ford announced earlier in the day that he was willing to repeal the […]
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is justifying his proposal to remove land from the environmentally protected Greenbelt in order to build homes by saying the housing crisis has worsened and will become more dire because of increased immigration. Ford says he welcomes a recent federal government announcement that it is seeking […]
By Nicole Thompson
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
A “frenzied and sleep-deprived” Ontario Labour Relations Board hearing to determine the legality of a strike by education workers stretched into a third and final day on Sunday, with a government lawyer arguing it doesn’t matter whether the contract that now binds 55,000 employees was negotiated with their input or […]
By Eric Shih
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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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Two men from the Rainy River area are out thousands of dollars and have had their hunting licences suspended after shooting a deer from a roadway and trespassing on private property. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry released details of the case involving two men from Devlin, which took […]
By Stephanie Taylor
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – The mayor of Windsor, Ont., will testify today at a public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters blockading streets around Parliament Hill and several border crossings. The scheduled testimony from Drew Dilkens comes as a piece of evidence shows […]
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VANCOUVER – Canada’s health ministers are set to meet in British Columbia this week, four months after premiers from across the country gathered in Victoria to show a united front of frustration over what they called a “crumbling” health-care system. All 13 provincial and territorial health ministers are expected to […]
