Category Archives: Canadian Press
Rawsthorne's try lifts Wolfpack over Raiders 16-12; Toronto wins ninth in a row
BARROW-IN-FURNESS, United Kingdom - Nick Rawsthorne’s try in the 49th minute followed by a Ryan Brierley conversion gave the Toronto Wolfpack a 16-12 win over the Barrow Raiders on Sunday in the...
Apr 22, 2018
Liberal MP Drouin says allegation made against him at party's Halifax convention
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Francis Drouin says an allegation has been made against him following an incident at the party’s convention in Halifax this weekend. Drouin, a 34-year-old MP from eastern Ont...
Apr 22, 2018
Poster for Elvis North Carolina show sells for over $42,000
RALEIGH, N.C. - A rare vintage poster for a 1955 Elvis Presley show in North Carolina has sold at auction for more than double the expected price. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the poster...
Apr 22, 2018
Montreal's green alleys have environmental, community benefits, experts say
MONTREAL - The little concrete alley off Montreal’s Desnoyers street sits in the shadow of a massive highway interchange, between two busy streets and a railroad track. But in the summer, it com...
Apr 22, 2018
RCMP spies saw women's movement through 'red-tinged prism,' new book says
OTTAWA - Canadian security agents were so busy looking for Communist infiltrators in the flowering women’s liberation movement, they all but missed a genuine social revolution that transformed m...
Apr 22, 2018
Rodrigue perfect as Canada shuts out Swiss at men's under-18 worlds
MAGNITOGORSK, Russia - Olivier Rodrigue made 17 saves as Canada shut out Switzerland 5-0 on Sunday in preliminary play at the under-18 men’s world championship. Allan McShane had a power-play go...
Apr 22, 2018
New Brunswick Liberal calling for study on Canada's endangered whales
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick member of Parliament is calling for a federal study to take a closer look at the state of Canada’s endangered whales. Karen Ludwig, the Liberal member for New Bruns...
Apr 22, 2018
French performers, politicians decry 'new anti-Semitism'
PARIS - Actor Gerard Depardieu, singer Charles Aznavour and former President Nicolas Sarkozy are among some 300 well-known French people urging national action to counter a “new anti-Semitism...
Apr 22, 2018
Ottawa launches online public consultation on plastic, marine waste
HALIFAX - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna launched a public consultation on plastic garbage Sunday as Ottawa tries to develop a national strategy to cut back on how much plastic Canadians use a...
Apr 22, 2018
'It's just like we're forgotten people': Indigenous evacuees waiting to go home
KAPUSKASING, Ont. - Paul Edwards sits alone at a bare table and washes down scrambled eggs with coffee in the large auditorium of the civic centre in Kapuskasing, Ont., while in a small motel room on ...
Apr 22, 2018