Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - From horse riding to weight lifting and soccer to sailing, what is defined as “sports” includes a broad variety of activities. But whether professional video gaming falls under...

VANCOUVER - When thousands of fans pack Vancouver’s Rogers Arena this weekend, it won’t be a hockey player or a musical superstar they’re screaming to see. Instead, the deafening cro...

OTTAWA - If playing golf sometimes feels like taking one step forward and two steps back, trying to get better can be akin to walking the wrong way on an escalator. Just ask Matt Parkinson. First, the...

VANCOUVER - Time is running out for the Vancouver Whitecaps to clinch a post-season berth, but the team’s goalkeeper remains optimistic. After all, the ‘Caps (9-9-7) have taken home eight ...

OXFORD, N.S. - A large sink hole that swallowed up a towering spruce tree in a Nova Scotia park appears to be growing by the day, and sparking concerns about a nearby community centre. Yellow caution ...

LIMA, Peru - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1-magnitude struck eastern Peru, close to its borders with Brazil and Bolivia, early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 24 --- FORD BACKS SCHEER AT TORY CONVENTION Ontario Premier Doug Ford threw his political weight behind federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer during a spe...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Friday viewed some of the work produced by an Australian filmmaker charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party r...

OTTAWA - A number of supporters who backed Maxime Bernier’s oh-so-close bid for the Conservative leadership say they want nothing to do with his plan to start a new party - but one source says t...

OTTAWA - Peter Harder, the Liberal government’s representative in the Senate, has rebuffed a call to testify next month in a Montreal man’s lawsuit over his lengthy detention in Sudan. Har...