OTTAWA — An organization that advocates for greater government accountability says Canada’s ethics watchdog should never have approved a flight taken by Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc on a private aircraft owned by J.D. Irving. LeBlanc’s office says the minister, who has been on medical leave since April, needed to attend a hospital in Montreal […]
MONTREAL — Quebec’s secularism law will continue to apply in full, Superior Court Justice Michel Yergeau ruled Thursday in rejecting a bid by religious and civil liberties groups to have the legislation suspended. Lawyers representing a national Muslim organization, a civil liberties group and a university student who wears an Islamic head scarf had asked […]
An arson attack at a well-known animation studio in Kyoto that left at least 33 people dead Thursday stunned fans of anime both at home and abroad. Expressions of sympathy and prayers poured in from fans of works produced by Kyoto Animation Co., also known as KyoAni, after one of its studios in the city […]
Callum Hudson-Odoi reportedly ‘looks ready to commit’ to Chelsea. The Blues have been hoping to tie down their star youngster to a new deal before his current contract runs out at the end of this coming season. According to Mail Sport, Hudson-Odoi is now in advanced talks with the club and there are positive signals […]
Chelsea are in Japan this week for two pre-season games, including a showpiece friendly against Barcelona. Frank Lampard’s Blues have played twice so far this summer, facing Irish sides Bohemians and St Patrick’s Athletic. Now they have travelled to the Far East to take on J1 League side Kawasaki Frontale. Lampard is working hard with […]
Newcastle duo Jonjo Shelvey and Karl Darlow were involved in a late-night brawl outside a pizza restaurant after the midfielder was taunted and ‘called a bald c***’. Shelvey, who suffers from alopecia, reportedly told his abuser to ‘go back to your council house, you peasant’, before a fight broke out. The Daily Mail has obtained […]
The 2019/20 Premier League season is almost upon us and talkSPORT will bring you more live football than ever before. It’s the greatest league in the world and to celebrate its return, we have compiled a list of the 20 players we expect to shine the most in the upcoming campaign. A team of talkSPORT experts […]
Efforts to free some endangered, entangled North Atlantic right whales continue, weather permitting, according to the federal government. A news release from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans said search and rescue operations for three whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence resumed on Tuesday after “several days” of challenging weather conditions. “Two of the […]
SAITAMA – A 17-year-old male high school student was stabbed early Tuesday at his home in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, by a suspected intruder, police said. The boy sustained wounds to his neck and other parts of his body, but the injuries were not life-threatening, according to authorities. Police said they had received an emergency call […]
One of the themes of modern football in recent seasons has been certain teams, seemingly, become ‘smarter’ in the transfer market. Increased focus on recruitment at the likes of Liverpool, in the wake of their Champions League triumph, has led to even greater scrutiny on how and why clubs make their decisions to acquire players. […]
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