Category Archives: Canadian Press

QUEBEC - Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid was named Team North America’s captain for the World Cup of Hockey on Thursday ahead of its first pre-tournament game. Philadelphia Flyers forward...

WASHINGTON - It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honour to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him - and there’s no worming out of it. Meet Baracktrema oba...

NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, Serena Williams’ bid to make history ended with a shocking loss in the U.S. Open semifinals. A seventh title at Flushing Meadows, which would have been a...

RIO DE JANEIRO - There were moments during Thursday’s bronze-medal bout that Priscilla Gagne couldn’t hear her coach Andrzej Sadej over the raucous cheers of the crowd. The 30-year-old fro...

PHOENIX - The suspect accused of stealing jewelry from Drake’s tour bus during the rapper’s Phoenix concert is a homeless man who works as a janitor. Travion Lamar King, 21, was released o...

QUEBEC - Michel Laplante, his face bloody and scarred, spoke to the media on Thursday about what it was like to survive the recent helicopter crash that killed Quebec singer Roberto Bissonnette and th...

CARSON, Calif. - Landon Donovan is returning to the LA Galaxy, ending a 21-month retirement to suit up for his Major League Soccer team for at least the rest of this season. Donovan and the Galaxy ann...

MANHEIM, Pa. - Officials at a central Pennsylvania high school are revising an announcement that tells people to stand for the national anthem and warns they will be kicked out if they don’t sho...

CALGARY - Canadian Pacific Railway’s chief financial officer is stepping down just 16 months after he was appointed. The Calgary-based company says that Mark Erceg’s last day will be Frida...

NEW YORK - Traffic cop or truth detector? The rough reception given Matt Lauer for his back-to-back interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid bare a disagreement over whether journalists w...