Category Archives: Canadian Press

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is affirming its participation in a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The province says in a release that an order in council ha...

CALGARY - Forward Chris Higgins will join the Calgary Flames’ training camp on a professional try-out. The Smithtown, N.Y. native spent the last six seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, notching ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Invasive weeds have long threatened to erode dunes on a portion of the Chicago lakefront, but the area recently had to contend with a virtual invasion: “Pokemon Go” cha...

NHL goalies won’t look as trim as expected this season because of delays to an ambitious redesign of their bulky equipment. NHL officials at the general managers’ meetings in March said th...

SASKATOON - A 26-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in northern Saskatchewan by a lone wolf. The man, a shift worker at Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine, was walking be...

MOSCOW - News agencies report a concert marking Uzbekistan’s 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union has been cancelled amid uncertainty about the health of the country’s ho...

WHYCOCOMAGH, N.S. - They’re offering free land and a job to anyone interested in working at the family roadside general store - and two Cape Breton businesswomen say they’ve been swamped w...

PARIS - French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, an outspoken former investment banker who has encouraged startups and more labour flexibility, has quit the socialist government amid speculation that ...

WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department said Tuesday it had closed offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats that it considered serious. USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said the departme...

TORONTO - The three people killed in a bloody crossbow attack at a home in Toronto’s east end last week were the mother and two brothers of the accused, police said Tuesday after an Ontario cour...