TV Monday: Dancing With the Stars footloose and fancy free
There was Michael Bublé, gamely performing Come Dance With Me with its big-band vibe and rumba-rumba shout-outs. There was bad-boy comedian Andy Dick, gamely bidding a tearful goodbye as the final...
View ArticleMuslims, non-religious Canadians expected to be focal points of major...
Canada’s rapidly increasing Muslim population is expected to be a huge focus of this week’s National Household Survey, whose first results will be released May 8 by Statistics Canada. The voluntary...
View ArticleThe top 10 Vine videos to have ever been Vined
Well, no surprise here, anything those One Direction boys touch turns to gold. So it only makes sense that Taylor Swift’s ex, Harry Styles, topped the list of most popular Vine videos in Vine history....
View ArticleBrutal attack on British soldier opens new front in the war against terrorism
The macabre attack on a British soldier on a street in southeast London on Wednesday and the equally horrific and senseless slaughter of spectators at the Boston Marathon last month both appear to have...
View ArticleStamps hope game a diversion for flood-stained Calgarians
CALGARY — With a decade of loyal service as a Calgary Stampeder, slotback Nik Lewis is one of the most recognizable professional athletes in town — especially since Jarome Iginla flocked to the...
View ArticleRussia’s interior minister says 37,000 police will be deployed to protect...
BC-OLY-Sochi-Security, 2nd Writethru By Vladimir Isachenkov THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Russia’s interior minister said Friday that 37,000 police officers have been deployed to protect the 2014...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev heads to court
Denise Lavoie BOSTON — Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing will watch as the young man who could face the death penalty for the attack appears in court for the first time since he was found...
View ArticleAlleged PostSecret murder confession sends Internet into frenzy
The top post on popular website PostSecret sent the Internet into a frenzy and eventually resulted in a criminal investigation in Chicago. The post led off the “sunday secrets” feature on the website,...
View ArticleRays mistakes open door for big Red Sox innings and Boston wins to take lead...
BOSTON — One ball fell between two outfielders. Another took a bad hop off the Green Monster standings. One batter reached safely on a dropped third strike and another when the pitcher was slow to...
View ArticleBoston Red Sox fans congregate near Boston Marathon finish line
After last night’s decisive victory, clinching the 2013 World Series for the Boston Red Sox, many fans flocked to Boylston Street to honour the victims of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack. Mass ave...
View ArticleObama promises ‘year of action’ in state of the union address
WASHINGTON — Promising a “year of action,” U.S. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday in his state of the union address that he will bypass Congress and take unilateral action to implement a broad...
View ArticlePHOTOS: The Boston Marathon bombing, one year later
Although some scars remain, Boston has done much healing in the year since bomb blasts cut short the celebration at the finish line of the city’s annual marathon. On April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded...
View ArticleMan accused of leaving backpack containing rice cooker near Boston Marathon...
BOSTON — A man arrested near the Boston Marathon finish line carrying a backpack containing a rice cooker on the anniversary of the bombings has a mental disorder, his mother told The Associated Press...
View ArticleBoston Marathon will be ‘safest place on planet’, race director says
BOSTON — Organizers and law enforcement officials are urging Boston Marathon spectators to leave backpacks and other bags at home. They also say crowds will be limited at the finish line where two...
View ArticleLive: Watch the Boston Marathon live
The first marathon in Boston since the deadly bombing in 2013 has drawn the attention of the world. And rightfully so. This year’s marathon, despite one poorly-thought out prank, is a sign of the...
View ArticlePhotos: Boston Marathon
A collection of the best photos from the 118th Boston Marathon as selected by the editors at Postmedia News. Police officers watch as runners make their way along the course of the 118th Boston...
View ArticleBoston Marathon returns to streets one year after deadly bombings
BOSTON — Some ran to honour the dead and wounded. Others did it to prove something about their sport, the city or their country. And some were out to prove something to themselves. With the names of...
View ArticleGovernment looks to terrorism studies to stop radicalization
Even though the federal Conservatives have previously scoffed at the need to identify the “root causes” of terrorism, the government has just commissioned several new studies on the topic. According to...
View ArticleWayne Scanlan: In mad world, hockey takes pause
OTTAWA — What to do in a world gone mad? Here in the toy department, we hit the pause button on fun and games. So it followed that in the wake of Wednesday’s tragic events on Parliament Hill and at the...
View ArticleHockey Night across Canada pays tribute to fallen soldiers in show of solidarity
By Neil Davidson TORONTO – The Air Canada Centre stood up and sang in solidarity Saturday to honour two soldiers killed in separate incidents. The crowd was an enthusiastic part of a co-ordinated...
View ArticleBoston bombing attack: What does Chechnya have to do with it?
The two suspects in the Boston bombing attacks are said to come from a region affected by the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended school in Makhachkala — the capital of...
View ArticleBoston bombing probe: Genie can’t be put back in bottle on crowdsourcing...
Less than 24 hours after law enforcement undertook the highest-profile crowd-sourcing effort in history – an attempt at identifying the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing – police were...
View ArticleCanadians in Boston hunker down – with defiance – as hunt continues for...
The street Kevin Cedrone lives on in Cambridge, Mass., is normally streaming with college students on bikes. On Friday morning, it was eerily silent – except for the bomb-disposal trucks, SWAT teams...
View ArticleBoston Marathon suspects’ uncle a ray of hope
BOSTON — On one of the most extraordinary days in modern American history — a great old city under lockdown, its people ordered to stay in their homes as thousands of police and military searched for...
View ArticleBarack Obama cautions Americans on bombing
WASHINGTON – U.S. president Barack Obama has asked Americans not “to rush to judgment” about the motives behind the Boston Marathon bombings or about the people who did it and their ethnic origins. “In...
View ArticleBoston bombing suspect captured
Got him! The marathon hunt for the alleged Boston bomber is over and a suspect is in custody. “They got him, he’s in custody,” a state trooper told the media. Cheers were heard, following a frenetic 22...
View ArticleSocial media reaction to the capture of the Boston bombing suspect
Relief greet the United States with the dawn of a new morning Saturday and none more so than in Boston, after bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested late Friday. It brought an end to a city...
View ArticleVIDEO: No anthem singer required during Boston Bruins Pittsburgh Penguins game
They lost the game Saturday but Boston Bruins fans didn’t care as an emotional week ended with some good old fashioned hockey at the Boston Garden. The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Bruins 4-3 and...
View ArticleBoston terror suspects said to act alone, but just as marathoners have a...
LONDON — Just as marathoners follow a calendar, moving from last Monday’s Boston Marathon to Sunday’s foot race in London, followed by other cities in South America, Europe and Asia, modern jihadis...
View ArticleHow Massachusetts State Police found their man
During Friday night’s pursuit of 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the police took some aerial images as the chase went on. Massachusetts State Police Saturday released a...
View ArticleVIDEO: Boston Red Sox David Ortiz drops F bomb during opening ceremony
Emotions have been raw all week in Boston in light of the marathon bombing tragedy and they boiled over into jubilation Friday night when the suspect was arrested. Neil Diamond helped lift a lot of...
View ArticleAnthony scores 36 points, Knicks beat Celtics in playoff opener
NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony started fast, struggled through the middle, and finished with a flurry. And the New York Knicks, after knocking the Boston Celtics from the top of the Atlantic Division, took...
View ArticleBoston bombings – why did this happen?
By Lee-Anne Goodman WASHINGTON – With the prime suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings under guard in hospital with serious wounds and his older brother and accomplice dead, the United States now...
View ArticleBoston attacks may finally reveal global nature of radical Islam
LONDON — The most savage wars that I have witnessed were the Rwandan genocide and the two Chechen wars. Much of the slaughter in Chechnya was murder at close quarters. The Chechens killed Russians with...
View ArticleCanada’s security forces can learn from Boston terror attack, Vic Toews says
OTTAWA – The Boston Marathon bombings demonstrate the need for stronger anti-terrorism laws in Canada, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said on Sunday. In an interview with CTV’s Question Period, Toews...
View ArticlePolice: Marathon bombing suspects planned more attacks
BOSTON — The surviving suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing remained unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat, while the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a...
View ArticleMarathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged
BOSTON — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged Monday with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and could face a death sentence, the U.S. Attorney General said....
View ArticleDebate on anti-terror bill filled with political accusations
OTTAWA — Hours before the RCMP announced arrests in an alleged terrorist plot Monday, partisan sniping dominated debate over proposed federal counter-terrorism legislation. Opposition parties accused...
View ArticleRCMP alleges pair had al-Qaida support in plot to derail VIA train
Authorities have nabbed two men in an alleged terrorist plot to attack a Canadian passenger train — a scheme that apparently had support from al-Qaida. Just a week after the Boston Marathon was struck...
View ArticleBoston bombings
An explosion shattered the excitement at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday April 15.
View ArticleFamily statement released about Boston bombing victim Martin Richard
The eight-year-old boy killed in the bombing at the Boston Marathon was remembered during a small, private funeral on Tuesday. “The outpouring of love and support over the last week has been...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bomber charges reveal new details of terror attack
WASHINGTON — The FBI affidavit accompanying federal charges against the suspected Boston Marathon bomber has revealed new details of the allegations against the two young men accused of unleashing a...
View ArticleNew arrests expected as Via Rail terror suspects appear in court
TORONTO — The RCMP-led national security enforcement team expects to make more arrests in the Via Rail train bombing plot. The two men arrested Monday — Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and...
View ArticleMan held in terror-plot arrests says charges aren’t based on the ‘holy book’
TORONTO — A Tunisian accused of plotting to attack a Via Rail passenger train was remanded into custody Wednesday, after telling a judge the charges against him were imperfect because they were “not...
View ArticleSurviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted role, officials...
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, acknowledged his role in the attacks to FBI investigators. But the officials say this occurred...
View ArticleString of terror incidents no reason to ‘commit sociology': Stephen Harper
OTTAWA — A day after offending teachers with partisan attack ads denigrating Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s past life as an educator, Prime Minister Stephen Harper took aim at sociologists. Now is not...
View ArticleThe changing face of terrorism
First, two high school buddies from London, Ont., end up dead in the north African desert, accused of taking part in a four-day siege at a gas refinery that kills dozens. Then, two brothers in Boston...
View ArticleKnicks roll to victory over Celtics for 3-0 lead in series
BOSTON — The New York Knicks quieted the crowd and kept the Boston Celtics silent. Now only the greatest collapse in NBA history would prevent them from reaching the second round again. Carmelo Anthony...
View ArticleAfter 20 hours, Venezuelan man is last finisher of Boston Marathon
BOSTON — The last athlete to complete the Boston Marathon has received his race medal. Maickel Melamed was bestowed his award by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh at City Hall on Tuesday, after completing the...
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