Category Archives: Canadian Press
Merger talk, equality on the minds of players at CWHL all-star game
TORONTO - Natalie Spooner dreams of a day when women’s professional hockey players won’t have to rush home from work to make it to practice. Hilary Knight hopes the narrative of the sport&...
Jan 20, 2019
School where fans displayed Trump flag pulls out of MLK game
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota high school where fans displayed a President Donald Trump re-election flag has pulled out of a basketball invitational hosted by a Minneapolis school on Martin Luther King Jr...
Jan 20, 2019
Ontarians helping homeless stay warm as the province endures extreme cold
As most of Ontario endures an extreme cold snap this weekend, with some areas seeing wind chill values as low as -30 C, various groups and shelters are increasing their services to help the homeless s...
Jan 20, 2019
250 passengers stranded aboard airplane in frigid Labrador for 16 hours
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - An end is finally in sight for passengers who spent 16 gruelling hours on a plane grounded on a tarmac in frigid Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., though a passenger was lef...
Jan 20, 2019
Amid injury crisis, Tottenham finds scoring hero in Winks
With Tottenham’s attacking options getting increasingly thin amid a striker crisis, Mauricio Pochettino is going to need goals from unlikely sources to keep alive his team’s hopes of silve...
Jan 20, 2019
Keep it positive in a campaign year, Trudeau tells MPs while attacking Tories
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sharpened his core re-election message on Sunday, telling his MPs to present a positive message to Canadians while he branded his Conservative opponents as a det...
Jan 20, 2019
Haida Gwaii home to a distinct but vulnerable pocket of northern goshawks
VANCOUVER - Haida Gwaii’s population of northern goshawks are the last remnant of a highly distinct genetic cluster of the birds, a new study by University of British Columbia researchers has fo...
Jan 20, 2019
Deputies shoot man after he kills 4, including baby daughter
PORTLAND, Ore. - A rural Oregon man killed four members of his family at the home they shared and was shot by sheriff’s deputies as he tried to kill a girl, authorities said. Mark Leo Gregory Ga...
Jan 20, 2019
Canada's Phelan and Serwa win first World Cup medals of ski-cross season
IDRE FJALL, Sweden - Canadians Britt Phelan, Kelsey Serwa, and Marielle Thompson raced into the World Cup big final in ski cross action on Sunday, placing second, third, and fourth, respectively. Swit...
Jan 20, 2019
Nguyen, Chartrand will lead Canada's team at the world championships
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Patrick Chan texted Mike Slipchuk during the men’s free program at the Canadian figure skating championships on Saturday night. Canada’s three-time world champion wanted...
Jan 20, 2019