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Myles Gray police beating hearing in B.C. adjourned after hot-mic obscenity
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
VANCOUVER — A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray that got underway in Vancouver this week has been adjourned after a lawyer used a strong obscenity to describe someone in a remark captured by a microphone. The long-awaited hearing by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner that is scheduled ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Inside Super Bowl week’s concerts, parties and celebrity scene heading into big game
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
Super Bowl week will unfold across several days in the Bay Area, with the game itself serving as the final act in a tightly coordinated mix of sports, music, media and celebrity appearances. From league-run press events to invitation-only gatherings in San Francisco, the jam-packed week draws athletes, entertainers and executives together in the days ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Myles Gray police beating hearing adjourned after hot mic obscenity
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
VANCOUVER — A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray that got underway in Vancouver this week has been adjourned after a lawyer used a strong obscenity to describe someone in a remark captured by a microphone. The long-awaited hearing by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner that is scheduled ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Olympic halfpipe champion Hirano named to Japanese team. Prospects uncertain after nasty fall
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano was named to the Japanese team heading to next month’s Milan Cortina Games despite breaking bones in his face in an accident at a contest in Switzerland over the weekend. The Japanese ski and snowboard federation placed the 27-year-old on the roster it revealed Tuesday. It said Hirano suffered multiple ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney says Canadian values key to maintaining sovereignty as authoritarianism rises
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
QUÉBEC — Staying true to Canada’s core values will be key to maintaining its sovereignty, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday. In a speech to kick off the cabinet retreat in Quebec City, Carney said Canada was created by people of different backgrounds coming together to build a nation on the principles of multiculturalism and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Parents of Canadian held in Syria urge Ottawa to act as prisoners are sent to Iraq
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
OTTAWA — The mother of a Canadian man detained in northeastern Syria says he risks going from “one legal black hole into another” as prisoners in the strife-torn region are transferred to Iraq. Sally Lane has been calling on Ottawa for years to facilitate the release of her son Jack Letts from a Syrian prison. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Runnalls leads Canada’s biathlon team into 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
CANMORE — Seven of eight athletes on Canada’s biathlon team will make their Olympic debuts at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. The athletes announced Thursday by Biathlon Canada will race Feb. 8-21 at the Ansterselva Biathlon Arena, which is 65 kilometres north of Cortina near the Austrian border. Calgary’s Adam Runnalls is the lone biathlete ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cowboys are close to hiring Philadelphia’s Christian Parker as defensive coordinator, AP sources say
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
The Dallas Cowboys are close to an agreement to hire Philadelphia passing game coordinator Christian Parker as their defensive coordinator, two people with knowledge of the plan said Thursday. Parker interviewed in person on Wednesday. The sides were finalizing the contract a day later, the people told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tommy Rees joins Falcons as offensive coordinator, reuniting with coach Kevin Stefanski
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
The Atlanta Falcons have named Tommy Rees offensive coordinator, the team announced Thursday. It’ll be a reunion for Rees and newly-appointed Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski. Rees worked under Stefanski for two years in Cleveland. He was initially brought on as tight ends coach and pass game specialist in 2024 before being promoted to offensive coordinator ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Grondin, O’Dine among 13 snowboarders named to Canada’s Olympic roster
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
TORONTO — Olympic medallists Éliot Grondin and Meryeta O’Dine headline Canada’s snowboard cross team for the Milan Cortina Games. Canada Snowboard and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the 13 snowboard cross, half pipe and parallel giant slalom athletes heading to the Games in a joint release Thursday. Grondin, the reigning men’s snowboard cross world champion ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Elizabeth Hurley describes ‘monstrous’ privacy invasion by Daily Mail in British media hacking case
By Canadian Press on January 22nd, 2026
LONDON (AP) — Elizabeth Hurley accused the publisher of the Daily Mail on Thursday of tapping her phones, putting microphones outside her windows and stealing her medical records among “other monstrous, staggering things” during testimony in a celebrity-studded privacy invasion lawsuit. “The best way I can describe it is like there is someone peeping into ... Read More »
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