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Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers deal prompts California controller to ask Congress to cap deferred payments

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California Controller Malia M. Cohen wants Congress to change the tax code to cap deferred payments, a change that could ensure the state is owed more money from Shohei Ohtani. Cohen made the request four weeks after the two-way star and the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to a record $700 million, ... Read More »


Kimmel says he’d accept an apology from Aaron Rodgers but doesn’t expect one

NEW YORK (AP) – Jimmy Kimmel said he’d accept an apology from New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers for inappropriate comments associating the comic with Jeffrey Epstein, but doesn’t expect one. “A decent person would apologize,” Kimmel said Monday during his first appearance on his late-night ABC show since Rodgers’ comments. “But he probably won’t.” ... Read More »


Stantec snaps up engineering firm Morrison Hershfield as expansion plans gather steam

Stantec Inc. has snapped up engineering firm Morrison Hershfield, the latest in a string of acquisitions and broader growth that have boosted the company’s presence in Canada and across the globe – as well as its stock. Over the past year, the design consulting company saw its share price rise 61 per cent to $106.74 ... Read More »


Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett to get honorary Oscars at starry, untelevised event

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hollywood’s awards season can start to feel a little gratuitously self-congratulatory, but Tuesday night some of the biggest movie stars in the industry are gathering to celebrate someone other than themselves. Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton will collect honorary Oscar statuettes at a private, untelevised dinner Tuesday ... Read More »


Ray Epps, a target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, gets a year of probation for his Capitol riot role

WASHINGTON (AP) – A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation but no jail time for joining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was driven into hiding by ... Read More »


Trans Mountain to present pipeline variance arguments at oral hearing Friday

CALGARY – The Canada Energy Regulator will hear arguments Friday from the company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on its request for a pipeline variance. The Trans Mountain pipeline is Canada’s only oil pipeline to the west coast, and its expansion will boost the pipeline’s capacity to 890,000 barrels per day from 300,000 bpd ... Read More »


S&P/TSX moves down in late-morning trading, led by financials; U.S. markets also down

TORONTO – Weakness in financial stocks helped move Canada’s main stock index lower in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets were also down. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 134.77 points at 20,940.14. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 236.58 points at 37,446.43.The S&P 500 index was down 15.41 points at ... Read More »


Onetime ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat to release book this spring, ‘The Art of Diplomacy’

NEW YORK (AP) – Former diplomat and White House aide Stuart E. Eizenstat has a book out this spring on some of the country’s most consequential treaties and other international accords. Publisher Rowman & Littlefield will release “The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World” on May 28. Eizenstat ... Read More »


Montreal unregistered acupuncturist’s clients urged to get tested for HIV, hepatitis

Montreal public health is urging clients of a man offering acupuncture treatments in the city’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Officials say the risks stem from the potential reuse and cross-contamination of acupuncture needles, suction cups and injections administered by Dashdorj Bayasgalan, also known as “Dr. Ba.” The ... Read More »


Even Andrew Scott was startled by his vulnerability in ‘All of Us Strangers’

NEW YORK (AP) – On a recent winter day in New York when the sun was shining, Andrew Scott rushed into a coffee shop between recording sessions for an upcoming series. “I’m scheduled tighter than a teenage pop star,” he said, beaming. The interview had been postponed once, and the location was switched at the ... Read More »