Category Archives: Canadian Press

BRANDON, Man. - Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs and Alberta’s Kevin Koe stayed unbeaten at the Canadian men’s curling championship Thursday. Both teams won their first games of the ch...

MONTREAL - Cuban authorities have backed off a threat to seize the last surviving St. Lawrence River schooner, which ran aground on a beach in the Caribbean country on Jan. 27. But the danger remains ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Civic-minded Virginia residents logging on to a city website expected to find video of the most recent Charlottesville City Council meeting, but were instead greeted with an ant...

QUEBEC - Martin Prud’homme, the chief of Quebec’s provincial police, has been temporarily suspended pending an investigation into an allegation he committed criminal offences. Public Secur...

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - The rebuilt Humboldt Broncos hockey team is heading to the playoffs. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team was devastated after its bus and a transport truck collided at a rural...

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas had to hand it to Brad Marchand - that was a great tweet. A star winger and resident pot-stirrer for the Boston Bruins, Marchand mused on soci...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Wednesday postponed indefinitely a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism after a contentious meeting in which some new members confronted leaders over their pus...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Andreas Borgman to a one-year, two-way contract extension. The contract, which kicks in next season, has an NHL salary of US$700,000. The 23-ye...

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyer is threatening to call Gerald Butts and Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick to testify in open court if they don’t produce a series of documents ...

OTTAWA - Gerald Butts, a longtime friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and until recently his principal secretary, gave this written statement to the House of Commons justice committee as he began ...