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Stock market today: Big Tech carries Wall Street to another record and winning week
NEW YORK (AP) – Big Tech stocks carried Wall Street to another record high, even as many stocks fell amid worries about the downside of a too-hot economy. Big gains for Meta Platforms and Amazon pushed the S&P 500 index up 1.1% Friday. They also vaulted the Nasdaq composite up by 1.7%. The Dow Jones ... Read More »
Catherine Tait says CBC needs new financial model, not new mandate
OTTAWA – The head of Canada’s public broadcaster says it’s the financial model and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada that need reviewing – not its mandate. Catherine Tait made the comments today to a room of industry insiders at Prime Time, a conference for the broadcasting, film and media industry. Tait is pushing for a long-term financial ... Read More »
Canadian freestyle skier Amy Fraser wins World Cup gold in halfpipe
MAMMOTH, Calif. – Canadian freestyle skier Amy Fraser won her first career World Cup gold in the halfpipe competition at Mammoth Mountain on Friday. The 28-year-old Fraser, who was born in Halifax but now lives in Calgary, finished first with 85.50 points. Olympic champion Eileen Gu of China settled for second with 83.50 points, while ... Read More »
Federal judge in DC postpones Trump’s March trial on charges of plotting to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump’s March trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former president continues to work its way through the courts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday vacated the March 4 trial date but did ... Read More »
NHL won’t consider punishment for 2018 WJC players until after legal proceedings
TORONTO – NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will not consider any punishment against five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior team expected to be charged in connection with an alleged gang rape until the conclusion of judicial proceedings. A court document shows Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia ... Read More »
Taylor Swift could make it from Tokyo to the Super Bowl. Parking her private jet could be tricky
LAS VEGAS (AP) – If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane. Even the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., seems to be rooting for her. Places to ... Read More »
Proposal to take Indigo private would lower scrutiny, boost flexibility: experts
TORONTO – A proposal to take Indigo Books & Music Inc. private would allow the company to get back on track with less scrutiny and more flexibility than if it remained public, experts say. The company has spent the bulk of the last year recovering from a major cyberattack, coping with a succession of leadership ... Read More »
Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies
NEW YORK (AP) – Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76. Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued ... Read More »
Politics trumped legal advice in decision not to revoke citizenship of Nazi in 1960s
OTTAWA – A report on Canada’s handling of Nazi war criminals suggests politics played a key role in the 1967 decision to preserve the citizenship of a man convicted of war crimes in the Soviet Union. Details in newly unredacted pages show that when he was the justice minister, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau advised ... Read More »
Footballer-turned-actor Carl Weathers, who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies
NEW YORK (AP) – Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76. Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued ... Read More »
Fani Willis acknowledges a ‘personal relationship’ with prosecutor she hired in Trump’s Georgia case
ATLANTA (AP) – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis acknowledged in a court filing on Friday having a “personal relationship” with a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump but argued there are no grounds to dismiss the case or to remove her from the prosecution. Willis ... Read More »
