Category Archives: Canadian Press

Former CFL pioneer and Norman Kwong dead at 86
CALGARY - The China Clipper sailed to the rescue of more than one professional sports team - as a bruising football fullback, a tenacious front-office manager in the CFL and part-owner of his home-tow...
Sep 05, 2016
Canadian resident says clerical error caused govt to revoke status
TORONTO - A permanent Canadian resident currently stranded in Moscow says she has had her status revoked due to a clerical error and accuses the government of refusing to listen to her efforts to get ...
Sep 05, 2016
Scores of Canadians excluded from assisted dying law eager to join legal challenge
OTTAWA - Scores of suffering Canadians who’ve been excluded from the federal government’s restrictive eligibility criteria for medical assistance in dying are lining up to join a constitut...
Sep 05, 2016
Veterans Affairs data gives detailed picture of veterans using medical marijuana
OTTAWA - When he opened a medical marijuana shop in Kingston earlier this year, Trevor Hands had little idea who his customers would be, how much they would buy or how his business would grow simply t...
Sep 05, 2016

Andersen expected to be ready for start of Leafs season; sidelined 3-4 weeks
New Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen will not play for Team Europe at the World Cup of Hockey. The Leafs said Monday that Andersen will be sidelined for the next 3-4 weeks because of an upper ...
Sep 05, 2016

Hertl the latest to withdraw with injury; opts to put NHL club "first"
OTTAWA - San Jose Sharks winger Tomas Hertl is the latest player to pull out of the World Cup of Hockey with an injury. The 22-year-old withdrew from the Czech Republic squad, citing the need to be re...
Sep 05, 2016
Tavares says combos help players decipher roles on star-laden Canadian team
OTTAWA - Tyler Seguin didn’t know what to expect from Mike Babcock’s line combinations at the start of World Cup of Hockey training camp on Monday. Absent Jamie Benn, his usual running mat...
Sep 05, 2016
After hundreds of complaints, regulator examines new trimmed-down TV packs
OTTAWA - The national broadcast regulator and the country’s four biggest television service providers are in for an earful this week over the rollout earlier this year of so-called skinny-basic ...
Sep 05, 2016

Friends mourn Quebec singer killed in helicopter crash in northern New Brunswick
Friends say they’re struggling to come to terms with the death of a Quebec singer and former amateur hockey player who died in a helicopter crash Sunday. Roberto Bissonnette was killed along wit...
Sep 05, 2016
23 die in Ethiopia prison fire over weekend, government says
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Twenty-three people have died in a prison fire in Ethiopia over the weekend, a state-affiliated broadcaster reported Monday. The Kilinto prison on the outskirts of the capital,...
Sep 05, 2016