Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - While the Vancouver Whitecaps didn’t like the decision to send Brazilian Felipe off for a tackle on Toronto FC’s Marky Delgado in the first leg of the Canadian Championship fin...

TORONTO - Kawhi Leonard thanks the Spurs’ fans and organization and said he is looking forward to the “next chapter” in his NBA career in his first comments since being traded form S...

OTTAWA - A former soldier facing a murder charge in Ontario has lost a bid to halt his trial over concerns about delays in the case. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear Adam Picard’s ch...

TOKYO - Taylor Ruck almost psyched herself out before the race even started. Knowing she was swimming against five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky in the 200-meter freestyle on Thursday at the Pan...

Canadian international striker Janine Beckie has joined the Manchester City women’s team in a transfer from Sky Blue FC of the NWSL. Beckie who turns 24 on Aug. 20, signed with the English team ...

MONTREAL - A frustrated Osheaga concert-goer is seeking to sue the promoter after last Friday’s headline act showed up late and after she had left. Travis Scott, a popular U.S. rapper, arrived n...

COPENHAGEN - Sweden is calling on Russia to release a Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike, saying it’s worried about his “deteriorating health condition.” Swedish Foreign Minister M...

SYDNEY, Australia - The actress at the centre of Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s defamation suit against a Sydney newspaper alleged he touched her breast and lower back during a Shakespeare ...

WEST WARWICK, R.I. - A Rhode Island woman’s karaoke version of Missy Elliott’s hit song “Work It” has become an internet sensation, even drawing praise from Elliott. Mary Halse...

MONTREAL - A funeral was held in Montreal on Thursday for Paul Gerin-Lajoie, a key architect of education system reforms in Quebec during the 1960s. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gov. Gen. Julie Paye...