CALGARY – The founding fathers of the 1988 Winter Olympics had financial foresight.
Wynne's victory as Ontario's first woman premier a breakthrough, poll suggests
TORONTO – A new poll shows about 70 per cent of Canadians think Kathleen Wynne’s victory as Ontario’s first female premier is a significant breakthrough for women in politics.
Bookmakers offer odds on papal contenders, including African cardinals - and Bono
LONDON – Bookmakers have been quick to offer odds on candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI, with cardinals from Ghana, Nigeria and Canada among the early favourites.
Shares of Labrador Trough juniors fall as rail plan halted
(Reuters) – Shares of junior miners with projects in Canada’s Labrador Trough fell on Monday, after Canadian National Railway Co hit pause on its plan to build a new rail line in the region. CN, Canada’s biggest railroad, said late on Friday it had halted a study into the feasibility of building an 800-kilometer (500-mile) line to connect the isolated region to port. The Labrador Trough, a geological formation extending south-southeast through Quebec and Labrador, is home to vast deposits of iron ore, the main component of steel. …
Bookies offer odds on who will be next pope
LONDON (AP) -- Bookmakers have been quick to offer odds on candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI, with cardinals from Ghana, Niger ia and Canada among the early favorites. Vatican: Health problems not why pope is resigning
LONDON (AP) -- When he became pope at age 78, Benedict XVI was already the oldest pontiff elected in nearly 300 years. He's now 85, and in recent years he has slowed down significantly, cutting back his foreign travel and limiting his audiences. Nigeria arrests journalists over polio worker killings
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Three Nigerian journalists have been arrested for inciting violence by saying on a radio show that polio immunizations were an anti-Islam Western conspiracy, just days before health workers administering the vaccines were killed. Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead the nine health workers in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano on Friday. No one claimed responsibility but Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a sect that has condemned the use of Western education, has been blamed for carrying out a spate of assaults on security forces in the city. …
Christians surprised at pope's decision to retire
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) -- Shock, sadness and declarations of faith met Pope Benedict XVI's announcement Monday that he would retire Feb. 28. Here's a look at reaction from around the world: Fisherman's Friends tragedy: Singer 'fighting for his life' after accident that killed manager
LONDON – The popular British sea shanty singing group Fisherman’s Friends has been devastated by the death of its tour manager and grave injuries to a singer.
Ex-banker Sousa to become Ontario finance minister: reports
TORONTO (Reuters) – Ontario’s incoming Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne has chosen former banker and cabinet minister Charles Sousa to become the province’s next finance minister, according to media reports. Wynne’s office declined to confirm the reports and said the official announcement would not be made until later on Monday. But the selection of her former leadership rival Sousa for the high-profile portfolio was widely expected, especially after Sousa endorsed Wynne at the party’s leadership convention last month. Wynne, who will be sworn in to replace Dalton McGuinty around 3 p. …
Egypt protests on anniversary of Mubarak ouster
CAIRO (AP) -- Masked men briefly blocked trains at a central Cairo subway station Monday as Egyptians commemorated the second anniversary of autocrat Hosni Mubarak's ouster with angry protests directed at his elected successor. Eritrea's president says no fear of unrest after army mutiny
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki sought on Monday to calm fears of unrest, and in his first reaction to the storming of the information ministry ago by dissident troops three weeks, blamed “bankrupt enemies” for being behind the attack. Eritrean soldiers, backed by tanks, took over the ministry on January 21 and obliged the director general of state television to appeal for all political prisoners to be freed. …
Pacioretty says he got tetanus shot after alleged bite by Toronto's Grabovski
MONTREAL – Max Pacioretty says he got a tetanus shot after he was allegedly bitten by Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski.
Toronto goalkeeper Stefan Frei to undergo surgery on nose in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. – Toronto FC goalkeeper Stefan Frei will undergo surgery to reset his broken nose Tuesday in Orlando.
Caliber Collection fashions jewelry to take guns off the streets
Perhaps borrowing Shakespeare's expression of wearing one's heart on one's sleeve, Jessica Mindich wears her passion on her wrist.
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