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CBC to skip New Year’s Eve broadcast special due to ‘financial pressures’
TORONTO – New Year’s Eve will look much different this year on CBC-TV. Canada’s public broadcaster tells The Canadian Press that “financial pressures” have led the network to cancel this year’s countdown, which inched towards midnight with musical performances and a fireworks show. This year, CBC plans to air a new “Just For Laughs” special ... Read More »
Vancouver Whitecaps sign Croatian midfielder Kreilach after Real Salt Lake departure
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed former Real Salt Lake captain Damir Kreilach. Kreilach, 34, spent much of the 2023 season dealing with the after effects of a back injury picked up in 2022 and was limited to four goals and one assist in 27 games. He signed a two-year deal with the Whitecaps ... Read More »
What to stream this week: Barbenheimer, ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ and K-pop act TVXQ
ABC’s multi-city New Year’s Eve special and new music from the K-pop act TVXQ are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a true crime story on Max, a new version ... Read More »
RCMP arrest suspect in northern Alberta homicide after weeks-long search
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Mounties have ended a weeks-long search for a man wanted in a killing in northern Alberta. Wood Buffalo RCMP responded Dec. 5 to a firearms complaint in the community, 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. Officers found 60-year-old Russell John Shott suffering from injuries and he later died. A week later, ... Read More »
St-Onge wants CBC’s role redefined before next election, withstand government change
OTTAWA – Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says she wants the role of the public broadcaster redefined before the next federal election. St-Onge says in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press that the time is now to update CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, to hedge against a possible change in government. She says the Liberal government believes a ... Read More »
NHL forward Reggie Savage, who played for Nordiques, Capitals, dies at 53
WASHINGTON – NHL forward Reggie Savage, who played for the Quebec Nordiques and Washington Capitals, has died of cancer at the age of 53. The NHL said on its website Friday that Savage died Sunday in Florida. Montreal’s Savage was a first-round pick, 15th overall, by the Capitals in 1988. He spent his major junior ... Read More »
Amid push for EV adoption, pickup trucks are the next frontier
Michael Laroche replaced his Ford F-150 pickup truck with its electric twin, the F-150 Lightning, about a year-and-a-half ago. A Sherbrooke, Que., resident who installs electric vehicle chargers for a living, Laroche says he drives somewhere between 300 and 400 kilometres a day, three to four times a week. After he replaced the combustion-engine pickup ... Read More »
Stock market today: Stocks slip on the final trading day of a surprisingly good year on Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks edged lower on the final day of trading for 2023 in what has been a surprisingly strong year of gains on Wall Street. Yet the so-called Magnificent 7 companies – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Tesla – accounted for about two-thirds of the gains in the S&P ... Read More »
Boeing asks airlines to inspect 737 Max jets for potential loose bolt
Boeing is asking airlines to inspect its 737 Max jets for a potential loose bolt in the rudder control system, the airplane maker and Federal Aviation Administration confirmed this week. The FAA said it would be “closely monitoring” the targeted inspections. The agency said Thursday that Boeing issued its inspection guidance to airlines after an ... Read More »
Quebec police say man, 77, allegedly defied driving ban for eighth time since 1998
GATINEAU, Que. – Police in Western Quebec say they have arrested a 77-year-old man for allegedly flouting a driving ban for an eighth time in the last 25 years. Gatineau, Que., police say Roger Murray has been convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol more than 20 times. Police say they arrested Murray, ... Read More »
Russia launches the biggest aerial barrage of the war and kills 30 civilians, Ukraine says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets, officials said Friday, killing at least 30 civilians across the country in what an air force official called the biggest aerial barrage of the war. At least 144 people were injured and an unknown number were buried under rubble during ... Read More »
