John Herdman, who led the Canada’s women’s soccer team to back-to-back Olympic bronze medals, is taking over the Canadian men’s program. He replaces the fired Octavio Zambrano, who was named head coach of the Canadian men’s national team program last March. Herdman’s new title is national team head coach and men’s EXCEL director. The surprise announcement came Monday evening. “It ...

A civil rights group has called on fans attending Monday night’s college football title game in Atlanta to wave white towels to send a message to a visiting U.S. President Donald Trump. The Atlanta branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is also urging people to wear white to the game and to wave their towels ...

Monday is the first opportunity for consumers to sign up to receive a $25 gift card from Loblaws related to the grocer’s role in fixing the price of bread for more than a decade, but the agreement comes with some fine print. Late last year, Loblaws announced it would give out the cards as an olive branch to customers who ...

In one of her final moves as Canada’s ethics and conflict of interest commissioner, Mary Dawson found that Bill Morneau and a family member didn’t benefit from insider information when they sold shares in his family’s pension company, Morneau Shepell, in the fall of 2015. In a letter dated Jan. 5 and addressed to Morneau, Dawson said the income tax increase for Canadians earning ...

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Venus Romero Iraheta, left, pleaded guilt to the brutal killing of Damaris Alexandra Reyes Rivas in 2017.  (Corrections Photo/Montgomery County Police) A teenager who sought to avenge the death of her boyfriend and told a 15-year-old girl she would “see her in hell” before stabbing her 13 times pleaded guilty Monday to the brutal slaying that raised the spotlight on ...

Sometime in March, a streak of fire will cross the sky as the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 falls out of orbit. But where it will fall, or how much of it will fall, nobody quite knows. Recent analysis by the Aerospace Corporation in California concludes that it will fall to Earth in mid-March, give or take two weeks. On Sept. 30, 2011, ...

The Liberal government has relaunched a lottery system to reunite immigrant families, despite a backlash from frustrated sponsors who called its random selection process “cruel,” “heartless” and a “fiasco.” A one-month period opened this week inviting entries to an online draw that gives people a chance at one of 10,000 spots that allow them to apply to sponsor their parents or ...