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AFC Toronto City becomes third team to sign on to Canadian women's pro soccer league
TORONTO - Diana Matheson's Canadian women's pro soccer league now has a foothold in Toronto. Matheson, a former Canadian international who is co-founder and CEO of the Project 8 group that is driving ...
Apr 26, 2023
Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops' meeting
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making respons...
Apr 26, 2023
Mendicino announces first step of firearm buyback program, targeting industry
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Ottawa has taken its first step toward launching its firearms buyback program, beginning with industry. Mendicino said at a news conference this mo...
Apr 26, 2023
Maple Leafs, Senators to play neutral-site games in Sweden next season
NEW YORK - The Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, Detroit Red Wings and Minnesota Wild will play a series of games in Stockholm, Sweden next season, the National Hockey League announced on Wednesda...
Apr 26, 2023
China's Xi talks with Ukraine's Zelenskyy by phone
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping appealed for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in a phone call Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, warning "there is no winner in a n...
Apr 26, 2023
US to send nuclear ballistic submarines to Korean Peninsula
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday will sign an agreement that includes plans to have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in South Korea for the first time in more th...
Apr 26, 2023
Iran says senior cleric on Assembly of Experts shot dead
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A senior Shiite cleric in Iran was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack in a northern province along the Caspian Sea, authorities said. An attacker shot to death Ayatollah Abbas ...
Apr 26, 2023
Five things to know about the NHL playoffs
OutKast and Usher ruled the music world in 2004. Shrek 2 was the top-grossing movie and Thefacebook, which later became Facebook, was launched. It was also the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won a ...
Apr 26, 2023
Sudan military: Former ruler al-Bashir in military hospital
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's military said Wednesday that former autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir was being held in a military-run hospital, giving its first official statement on his location since ...
Apr 26, 2023
In The News for April 26 : Sentencing in hit-and-run death of Calgary police officer
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 April 26 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Apr 26, 2023