Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed defenceman Cody Ceci to a two-year contract with an annual value of US$2.8 million. The contract runs through the end of the 2017-18. Ceci will get $2.25 milli...

VICTORIA - Works crews in Victoria have extracted moulted skin from a storm drain where a stubborn corn snake has been hiding for several days. The snake, estimated at about two metres in length, was ...

OTTAWA - The list of candidates for Conservative leadership is broadening beyond current and former MPs with the entrance of a Toronto communications consultant who says she believes an outside perspe...

TORONTO - With a career spanning a half-century, 1,000 productions and countless accolades, Al Waxman’s legacy as a legendary entertainer will soon be permanently cemented with a star on Canada&...

An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay a Vancouver-based mining company more than US$1.2 billion for expropriating its gold mines. Venezuela took over Rusoro Mining’s...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A hip-hop video shoot shut down parts of Route 66 in New Mexico last weekend because lowriders were driving around in circles as a crowd of hundreds twerked in the street. The film...

OTTAWA - Canadian Muslim leaders are fiercely disputing a new study that says several mosques and Islamic schools are endangering young people with extremist teachings. The study is “yet another...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is now leading all provinces for inflation - but critics say the full impact of its tax-hiking spring budget still hasn’t kicked in. The latest...

HALIFAX - One of Canada’s largest grocery store chains says it intends to withdraw an appeal of a human rights decision that found a Sobeys employee discriminated against a black customer - but ...

TORONTO - Montreal quarterback Kevin Glenn, Hamilton quarterback Zach Collaros and Edmonton defensive back Patrick Watkins are the CFL’s top performers for Week 9. Glenn threw five touchdown pas...