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Finns choose center-right candidate Stubb as president, preliminary results indicate
HELSINKI (AP) – Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb is projected to win Finland’s presidential election runoff on Sunday against former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. Finnish public broadcaster YLE projected that center-right candidate Stubb of the conservative National Coalition Party wins the Finnish presidency with 51.4% of the votes, while independent candidate Haavisto from the green left ... Read More »
CBP dog sniffs out something unusual in passenger’s luggage – mummified monkeys
BOSTON (AP) – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog sniffed out something unusual in luggage from a traveler returning from Africa – mummified monkeys. The passenger returning from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo reported that the luggage contained dried fish, but an inspection at Boston Logan Airport revealed dead and dehydrated ... Read More »
Alberta NDP leadership candidate says federal carbon levy is ‘dead’
CALGARY – Alberta’s former deputy premier entered the province’s NDP leadership Sunday with criticism of the federal carbon levy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sarah Hoffman, who was deputy premier when the NDP was elected in 2015, joins fellow legislature members Kathleen Ganley and Rakhi Pancholi in the race to replace Rachel Notley, who announced ... Read More »
Canada women qualify for Paris Olympics after Spain’s win in FIBA qualifier
SOPRON, Hungary – Canada’s women’s basketball team has qualified for the Paris Olympics. Bridget Carleton led the way with 19 points and eight rebounds but Canada fell to 1-2 dropping a pivotal game against Japan, 86-82, on Sunday in FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament action. However, with three teams qualifying for the Olympics from the four-team ... Read More »
Biden says Israel shouldn’t press into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israel shouldn’t go ahead with a military operation in the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah without a “credible” plan to protect civilians, President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, the White House said. They spoke after two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Egypt ... Read More »
Canadian women grab bronze in 4×100 freestyle relay at aquatics worlds
DOHA, Qatar – Canada’s women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay team earned bronze on Sunday at the world aquatics championships. The quartet of Rebecca Smith, Sarah Fournier, Katerine Savard and Taylor Ruck finished with a time of three minutes 37.95 seconds. The Netherlands (3:36.61) narrowly edged Australia (3:36.93) for gold. It was Canada’s third medal of the ... Read More »
Roussel’s gold leads three-medal day for Canada at short track speedskating World Cup
DRESDEN, Germany – Felix Roussel earned gold to spearhead a second straight three-medal day for Canada in World Cup short track speedskating action on Sunday. The Sherbrooke, Que., native won the men’s 500 metres in a time of 40.078 seconds. Roussel also took silver in the 1,000 as part of the three Canadian medals earned ... Read More »
Canada’s Marielle Thompson wins third straight World Cup ski cross gold
BAKURIANI, Georgia – Canada’s Marielle Thompson won her third consecutive World Cup women’s ski cross gold medal on Sunday. The victory caps a two-gold weekend in Georgia for the Whistler, B.C., native. It was also the fourth win in five races for Thompson, who is the reigning Olympic silver medallist and leads the season standings. ... Read More »
Art exhibit honors fun-loving man killed in mass shooting in Maine
WINSLOW, Maine (AP) – Peyton Brewer-Ross was the life of the party, with wraparound sunglasses and an outlandish Randy “Macho Man” Savage Slim Jim jacket. He also was a Navy shipbuilder, the father of a 2-year-old girl, and engaged to be married. Brewer-Ross, one of the 18 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in ... Read More »
“Diva” film soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith has died at 75
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith, a renowned soprano known for her performance in the 1981 French cult-classic film “Diva” and who sang through the U.S. and Europe during her operatic career, has died at age 75. Funeral services were held Friday for Fernandez Smith at a church in Lexington, Kentucky, where she ... Read More »
Warm weather forces Quebec winter carnival to shut ice palace on event’s final day
QUEBEC – Unseasonably mild weather has forced the Carnaval de Québec to close one of its signature venues on the last day of the event. Officials say they closed Bonhomme’s Palace on the advice of experts due to above-freezing temperatures in Quebec City . In honour of the Carnival’s 70th anniversary this year, officials built ... Read More »
