Category Archives: Canadian Press

A man known for skiing on the edge of danger feels Canadian sport is a safer place. Former national-team racer and Crazy Canuck Steve Podborski, now CEO and president of Parachute Canada, said the maj...

Celebrity chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who was found dead in France on Friday at the age of 61, filmed a number of episodes of his various shows in Canada over the past several years. Her...

LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump says he’s inclined to support a bipartisan effort in Congress to ease the U.S. ban on marijuana. Asked Friday about a proposal that would reshape the nation&...

TORONTO - The resounding defeat of Ontario’s Liberals in this week’s provincial election saw the party that previously held a majority slip below the number of seats required for official ...

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia must pay novelist Steven Galloway $167,000 in damages for making statements that violated his privacy rights and harmed his reputation when it suspended ...

CALGARY - Two victims of disgraced national ski coach Bertrand Charest joined former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy on Friday to demand immediate action from the federal government to combat abuse in spor...

BERLIN - Shelby Newkirk of Saskatoon broke the world record in the S7 women’s 50-metre backstroke Friday at the sixth and final stop on the Para-swimming World Series circuit. Newkirk won silver...

QUEBEC - A seventh member of Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s Liberal cabinet has announced he won’t seek re-election later this year. Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard says the deci...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A garbage-truck driver who drove into the path of a train carrying Republican members of Congress has been indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Marilyn Monroe’s rear is getting some leers in Connecticut. A 26-foot statue of the actress has been placed in a Stamford park across the street from a church, which is getting...