Category Archives: Canadian Press

SELKIRK, Man. - A Manitoba farmer has harvested a “yes” to a marriage proposal he plowed into a field. John Yokimas took his girlfriend, Sally Hnatiuk, for a plane ride. While airborne the...

SASKATOON - The family of hockey great Gordie Howe wants to return Mr. Hockey to his home. A city official says the family has requested that the cremated remains of Howe and his wife Colleen be inter...

NEW YORK - Gawker is going to shut down. A Gawker report Thursday said that Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder, told staffers that Gawker.com was ending on Thursday afternoon. Univision, the Spanish-...

NEW ORLEANS - Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them - double the sentence recommended by prosecutors. One of Sh...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are questioning the impartiality of a lawyer named to the panel reviewing the environmental assessment process, saying the more than $33,000 he has donated to the Liberals, ...

NEW YORK - Gawker to shut down next week after nearly 14 years less than 3 months after declaring bankruptcy. More coming. The Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. - Developers of a $3.8 billion, four-state oil pipeline have agreed to halt construction near an American Indian reservation in southern North Dakota until a federal court hearing next ...

YELLOWKNIFE - A study of lakes near one of Canada’s most contaminated industrial sites suggests the water immediately around Yellowknife’s Giant Mine won’t return to its natural stat...

ST-JEROME, Que. - The baby found dead in a parked car near a daycare centre north of Montreal was forgotten in the vehicle by the father, the CBC’s French service reported Thursday. Quoting unna...

HALIFAX - Courts cannot be used as a tool “to bring a world of hurt” on adversaries, a Nova Scotia judge has declared in the case of a retired lawyer who launched a barrage of legal action...