Category Archives: Canadian Press

SANDWICH, Ill. - An 11-year-old northern Illinois boy couldn’t resist testing the theory that when you place your tongue on a frozen metal pole, it’ll stick. Spencer Cline found out the ha...

EDMONTON - Premier Rachel Notley is ordering a mandatory cut to oil production to deal with a price crisis she says threatens to gut Alberta’s bedrock industry. Notley announced the province wil...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Packers have fired coach Mike McCarthy and made offensive co-ordinator Joe Philbin the interim head coach. The move announced by team president Mark Murphy came after a...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Police say a woman in Louisiana has been accidentally shot in the back by her 2-year-old child. The Shreveport Times reports that the woman was seriously wounded in the shooting earl...

FOREST LAKE, Minn. - A Minnesota church has ended its 70-year tradition of serving a dinner of lutefisk, a Nordic dish of dried cod soaked in lye, and the pastor has penned a eulogy for the dinnerR...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Arizona Cardinals were joking and yelling in the visiting locker room at Lambeau Field as if they didn’t believe what had just happened. “We did that! We did that,...

MIAMI - Jordan Phillips’ eagerness to get the last word backfired on the Buffalo Bills. The animated defensive tackle drew a costly penalty for taunting his former team, setting up a touchdown w...

HALIFAX - A new study from Statistics Canada draws data from an unexpected source to suggest Halifax has the highest rate of cannabis consumption per capita among five urban centres across the country...

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques won’t be carrying much with him when he leaves Earth to blast off to the International Space Station on Monday. If all goes according to plan, h...

OTTAWA - Initial analysis on the final text of the new North American trade pact Canada signed on Friday is pointing to two changes - one potentially helpful for the auto sector, the other potentially...