Hockey. Outdoors. In Florida. Next season, the NHL is making it happen — twice. The NHL announced Wednesday that the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers will play host to the New York Rangers at loanDepot Park in Miami — home of baseball’s Marlins — on Jan. 2, 2026, in the Winter Classic, with the Tampa…
Drinking one large glass of milk — including varieties fortified with calcium — or eating foods like yogurt that have the mineral each day may cut the risk of developing colorectal cancer by nearly one-fifth, according to a large study out of the United Kingdom. The study, published Wednesday in Nature Communications, found that consuming an…
The loonie is struggling, putting a premium on anything Canadians buy that comes with a price tag in U.S. dollars. With the Canadian dollar languishing around 69.5 cents US — floating near four year lows compared to the American greenback — experts say there are some steps consumers, investors and travellers can take to ease…
Firefighters battled to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area early Thursday that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. Ferocious winds that drove the flames and led to chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat and were not…
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people’s cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of the federal court in San Francisco rejected arguments that the search…
Rising cases of common respiratory illnesses in China and elsewhere around the Northern Hemisphere are within the range expected for winter, with no unusual outbreaks reported, the World Health Organization said. Reports of a surge of cases in China of human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a common respiratory infection, have drawn headlines worldwide, with reports of overwhelmed hospitals recalling the beginning…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States” after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to compel a merger through “economic force.” Trump, in a wide-ranging press conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with less than two weeks before he takes…
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 7, 2025 12:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors have waived centre Bruno Fernando, the NBA team announced Tuesday. Fernando averaged 3.4 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 8.6 minutes in 17 games (two starts) this season….
A Quebec father says he had to take his son to the United States for care after alleging doctors in Montreal wrote off his son’s chances at survival. In October 2024, two-and-a-half-year-old Arthur Tetrault was found in the pool of a home his family was renting in Ile-Bizard, Que., a Montreal suburb. Nicolas Tetrault said…
