Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - A Calgary bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is destined to die after the majority of voters said ‘no’ to it. In a plebiscite asking citizens if they want to ho...

NEW YORK - Amazon names New York City and Arlington, Virginia as the two sites for its second headquarters. More info coming. The Associated Press

LONDON - British police say they have arrested a suspect in their hunt for a shoplifter who bears a striking resemblance to Ross Geller, the character played by David Schwimmer on the TV show “F...

BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he’d bought - and promptly returned the money. Adela Stanici told The Assoc...

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 13 --- IN SINGAPORE, TRUDEAU SEEKS MORE TRADE WITH ASIA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lands in Singapore today, looking for a way to expand trade in southeas...

LITTLE BUFFALO, Alta. - Their story of poverty and neglect went from northern Alberta to the world and on Tuesday decades of determination paid off when the Lubicon Lake Cree signed a long-awaited tre...

SINGAPORE - Canadian companies doing business with a bloc of Asian nations need to stick around and do the hard work of building trade ties even after the ink dries on any government-struck trade deal...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry planned much of his own funeral service, held Tuesday inside Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica, and his choices ensured the ceremony would be as poli...

CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the country’s greatest all-time soccer players, to a year in prison for tax evasion while also giving him the option to pay a fine o...

Monday’s Games NHL Carolina 3 Chicago 2 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 2 Vancouver 1 Columbus 2 Dallas 1 Anaheim 2 Nashville 1 (SO) — NBA Washington 117 Orlando 109 New Orleans 126 Toronto 110 Philadel...