Category Archives: Canadian Press

Connor McDavid was nine when the Edmonton Oilers last qualified for the playoffs. Indeed, it’s been a long decade of futility in the Alberta capital. But as training camp opens this week, there ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is bombarding the province with thousands of overdose-reversing naloxone kits as part of an all-out assault against a drug crisis that has killed 488 people so far this ye...

NEW YORK - Viacom says interim CEO Tom Dooley will leave Nov. 15 and the company is cutting its dividend in half in the first major moves from the company since longtime CEO Philippe Dauman left in Au...

CALGARY - A man and his common-law wife are dead after what police believe was a targeted, gang-related shooting in Calgary. Investigators say officers found the body of the 38-year-old man in the fro...

MONTREAL - Two pythons on the lam in Quebec are in a race against Mother Nature as temperatures begin to dip in the coming weeks. One expert says it’s already pretty cold for the two fugitives a...

Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi rejected the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, effectively dooming the capital’s candidacy for the second time in four years. If approved by RomeR...

NEW YORK - Spotify is getting together with Tinder to allow users of the dating app to find musical matches. The streaming music service says Tinder users can now share a personal anthem on their prof...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Traffic slowed to a crawl and offices emptied across Prince Edward Island Wednesday as parents raced to collect their kids in the wake of province-wide school evacuations triggered by ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The day after a young Somali-American man stabbed 10 people at a central Minnesota mall, pickup trucks were spotted driving through predominantly Somali neighbourhoods, honking and wavin...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Airbus on Wednesday became the first airplane manufacturer to receive U.S. government permission to sell aircraft to Iran following last year’s nuclear accord, gett...