Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada's Abanda and Bouchard to play opening singles matches in Fed Cup tie
MONTREAL - Eugenie Bouchard says she just wants to play some matches and enjoy being part of a team again. Canada’s Fed Cup team hopes she can also rediscover at least some of the form that prop...
Apr 20, 2018
'We can't give up:' First Nations to fight Alaska drills on caribou calving land
Canadian First Nations are gearing up to fight new U.S. oil-drilling interest in the calving grounds of a caribou herd key to Indigenous physical and cultural survival. “We will continue to figh...
Apr 20, 2018
Regional district in B.C. wonders 'Where Are U Now,' Justin Beaver
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A toothy teaching tool has vanished from a park in British Columbia, and educators working there hope the fluffy stuffie will be returned. Justin Beaver, a nearly 10-kilogram, taxid...
Apr 20, 2018
Tim Horton raises more than $800K for Humboldt with yellow and green doughnut
TORONTO - Tim Hortons says the sale of a doughnut bearing the colours of the Humboldt Broncos has helped raise more than $800,000 for the junior hockey team that was involved in a horrific collision e...
Apr 20, 2018
Freeland's view of global clash of ideologies has Putin, Russia at its heart
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland sees the clash between the forces of democracy and authoritarianism as a defining conflict of our time, and she blames one country that she knows ex...
Apr 20, 2018
CFL announces that none of its teams exceeded salary cap during 2017 season
TORONTO - The CFL announced Friday all nine of its teams were under the $5.15-million salary cap in 2017. As a result, the order of the league’s annual draft May 3 is unaffected. The Montreal Al...
Apr 20, 2018
Casse earns seventh straight top trainer honour at Sovereign Awards
TORONTO - Another year, another Sovereign Award as Canadian thoroughbred racing’s top trainer for Mark Casse. Casse, 57, earned a seventh straight Sovereign Award on Thursday night and the 10th ...
Apr 20, 2018
Thieves take ATMs from 58 businesses across SW Ontario since January 2017: OPP
LONDON, Ont. - Police are asking business owners in southwestern Ontario to evaluate the benefits of having an ATM following numerous thefts of the machines from gas stations, restaurants and convenie...
Apr 20, 2018
'Really scary for us:' Wife of Alberta man charged in farm shooting terrified
OKOTOKS, Alta. - The wife of a man charged after shots were fired during a confrontation on his rural property in southern Alberta says the whole process has been terrifying. Edouard Maurice made a br...
Apr 20, 2018
Carolina coach Bill Peters resigns after 4 seasons with club
RALEIGH, N.C. - Bill Peters has not been able to lead the Carolina Hurricanes back to the NHL playoffs and after coming up short following his fourth season with the club, announced Friday that he is ...
Apr 20, 2018