Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Justin Smoak felt like he let the team down in the first inning when he struck out with two men on and nobody out. The Toronto slugger made up for it in a big way. Smoak belted a two-run hom...

LAS VEGAS - Canada’s Brad Gushue sees challenges ahead in defending the world men’s curling championship. His team rebounded from a rough first day in Las Vegas with a 7-2 win over Switzer...

GUATEMALA CITY - Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war in which soldiers waged a scorched-ear...

NEW YORK - Forwards Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers and Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins and Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson were named the NHL’s three stars for March on Sunday. McDavi...

OTTAWA - The head of one of Canada’s largest banks is urging the federal government to stem the flow of investment capital from this country to the United States - because, he warns, it’s ...

OTTAWA - The six military helicopters that Canada plans to send to Mali could be used to move more than peacekeepers: they could be called upon to support a multinational counter-terrorism force also ...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Spielberg’s action-adventure “Ready Player One” has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend. Studio estimates on Sunday say the Virtual Reality-f...

BOSTON - A husband and wife injured in the Boston Marathon bombing are unveiling a new children’s book they authored. Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes will be at the Boston Public Library on Th...

WASHINGTON - The White House is hitting back at former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin for claiming that he was fired from his job and that he was only informed about it shortly before Presid...

BERLIN - China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station hurtled toward Earth on Sunday and was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within hours. Most of the craft should burn up on re-entry, so scient...