Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - The mouse is chasing the fox. Disney is offering more than $71 billion for Fox’s entertainment businesses in a counterbid to Comcast’s nearly $66 billion offer . The battle for ...

ATLANTA - Michael Vick, who recently accepted a coaching job in Atlanta, has put his Florida home on the market for $1.4 million. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Vick’s home in a gated ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. existing home sales slipped 0.4 per cent in May, as the prolonged shortage of properties on the market is deterring home-buying. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday t...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have named Ryane Clowe head coach of the Newfoundland Growlers, their new ECHL affiliate. The 35-year-old native of St. John’s spent the last two seasons as an ...

OTTAWA - Canadians will have to wait until Oct. 17 - one month longer than expected - before they’ll be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

Nashville Predators forward Austin Watson was arrested on a charge of domestic assault involving his girlfriend over the weekend. Franklin Police Lt. Charles Warner said Wednesday that Watson was arre...

FREDERICTON - The official languages commissioner in New Brunswick - Canada’s only officially bilingual province - says the government still isn’t getting it right. Katherine d’Entre...

LONDON - Britain’s royal palace says Prince Louis will be christened July 9 by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. The third son of Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge was ...

PARIS - Lined up before dawn, dozens of migrants outside a government office in Italy jostled to be one of the handful allowed inside to request asylum Wednesday. The journeys that brought them to Rom...

CAIRO - The 15 officers who arrived at the prison in southern Yemen hid their faces behind headdresses, but their accents were clearly foreign - from the United Arab Emirates. They lined up the detain...