Category Archives: The Canadian Press

Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port city over weapons shipment from UAE for separatists
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn coun...
Dec 29, 2025

Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of a previous premier, dies at 80
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country's politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh National...
Dec 29, 2025

Hurricanes goalie Kochetkov expected to have season-ending surgery
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Carolina Hurricanes goalie Pyotr Kochetkov likely will miss the rest of the season after opting for surgery for a lingering lower-body injury. It's another blow for the Hurricanes...
Dec 29, 2025

Former Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet embracing return to Vancouver
VANCOUVER - As the Philadelphia Flyers' bus wound its way through Vancouver late Sunday night, the memories began to flood back for Rick Tocchet. It's been eight months since he walked away from his p...
Dec 29, 2025

Canadian baseball legend Justin Morneau talks Jays' run, goalie love at world juniors
MINNEAPOLIS - Justin Morneau watched the Toronto Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series titles. A kid with a dream growing up in New Westminster, B.C., those championships in 1992 and 1993 showed him...
Dec 29, 2025

Olympic gold medallist and three-time Brier champ Harnden to retire at end of season
TORONTO - E.J. Harnden first fell in love with curling while watching his father compete at a hometown Brier in 1990 at the Sault Memorial Gardens. "I was just hooked," Harnden said Monday. "I was jus...
Dec 29, 2025

9.0 quake in B.C. could kill thousands and cost $128 billion, report foresees
VICTORIA - Minutes after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island one summer's day, thousands of British Columbians are dead or injured in the wreckage - then comes the tsunami,...
Dec 29, 2025

Anand affirms Canada's view that Ukraine must control decisions about its sovereignty
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she told her Ukrainian counterpart Monday that decisions about Ukraine's sovereignty must be made by Kyiv itself. Anand's conversation with Andrii Sy...
Dec 29, 2025

Kucherov, Tolvanen, Slafkovsky named NHL's three stars of the week
NEW YORK - Tampa Bay Lightning right-wing Nikita Kucherov, Seattle Kraken right-wing Eeli Tolvanen and Montreal Canadiens left-wing Juraj Slafkovsky have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. ...
Dec 29, 2025

B.C. wildfire season scorched more than 8,800 square kilometres
VICTORIA - British Columbia's 2025 wildfire season was about a third as destructive as the record-setting season two years earlier. The Ministry of Forests says in a statement that 8,864 square kilome...
Dec 29, 2025