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Blue Jays named The Canadian Press team of the year after deep playoff run
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
TORONTO — A feeling of uncertainty hung in the air at training camp last February when the Toronto Blue Jays began preparations for the 2025 campaign. The team was coming off a last-place finish, its homegrown face of the franchise remained unsigned beyond the season and the possibility of playoff contention seemed iffy at best. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Shiffrin’s winning streak in danger as Swiss skier Rast leads World Cup slalom after 1st run
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin was fourth and more than half a second off the pace in the opening run of a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday, putting the American’s five-race winning streak in the discipline in danger. Shiffrin posted the fastest second split time and was one-hundredth ahead of world champion Camille Rast ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pulisic ends 2025 with a goal for AC Milan. He’s hoping for more with US at home World Cup in 2026
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
Christian Pulisic is on pace for the best season of his career — in a season that will conclude with a home World Cup for the United States. The American standout scored the opening goal for AC Milan in a 3-0 victory over Hellas Verona in Serie A on Sunday to raise his total to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi asks fans to stop whistling the team at Africa Cup
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi has appealed for the host nation’s supporters to stop whistling the team at the Africa Cup of Nations. “It’s not normal for the supporters to whistle,” Hakimi said Sunday before Morocco’s final group game against Zambia on Monday. “We need that 12th man.” The Moroccan players were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist, dies at 91
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91. Bardot died Sunday at her home in southern France, according to Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hugh Morris, former England cricket player and administrator, dies at 62
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Hugh Morris, the former England cricketer who later spent time as chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has died. He was 62. Glamorgan, the Welsh county team where Morris played his domestic cricket and was captain, said Sunday in a statement that Morris died after an “extremely difficult” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From gunshots to the Africa Cup, Sudanese players endure brutal war to bring hope
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — When Sudan player Ammar Taifour first heard gunfire outside his hotel room, he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. He had a soccer match to play. But hours later, gunfire erupted again and gunmen surrounded the hotel in Omdurman, central Sudan, trying to seize control of the area. Taifour, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Debate over surfing in German park gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a surfable wave in the river that runs through the park. For years, the site had been a hot spot for surfers and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hounded by photographers for years, Bardot identified with the animals she later set out to save
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman idolized as a sultry sex kitten into a militant animal rights crusader. Bardot, who died Sunday at age ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photos remembering Brigitte Bardot, iconic French actor and activist
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. The Associated Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Advocates push for advance MAID requests two years after Parliament recommendation
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
OTTAWA — Sandra Demontigny knew something wasn’t right when she couldn’t remember buying herself a new pair of boots. They were a splurge — a little out of character for the mother of three — and she had been excited about bringing them home. “I saw them near the door and I asked my kids, ... Read More »
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