Category Archives: Canadian Press
Petra Kvitova looking to add Rogers Cup title to already impressive year
MONTREAL - Petra Kvitova has fond memories of her Rogers Cup victory six years that she thinks about when preparing to do it all over again this year. Kvitova, who won in 2012, looks to claim her seco...
Aug 5, 2018
Entangled right whale freed from buoy after being spotted on Sunday
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - The Campobello Whale Rescue Team says an entangled North Atlantic right whale spotted last week in the Bay of Fundy appears to have been freed. Jerry Conway with the rescue team sa...
Aug 5, 2018
Provo exhibit allows visitors to colour on the art
PROVO, Utah - A new art exhibit in Provo has turned gallery space into a giant coloring book by allowing visitors to fill in the elaborate drawings of comic book style heroes and villains. Utah Valley...
Aug 5, 2018
Raonic begins Rogers Cup as second-ranked Canadian behind newcomer Shapovalov
TORONTO - Milos Raonic is heading into this year’s Rogers Cup in a different position than the one he’s become accustomed to over the last few years. Supplanted by teenager Denis Shapovalo...
Aug 5, 2018
Annette Dionne visits house she was born in as significance of quintuplets noted
NORTH BAY, Ont. - History repeated itself on Sunday, as more than a thousand people stood outside of the Dionne quintuplets’ birth home in North Bay, Ont., hoping to see one of the two surviving...
Aug 5, 2018
Osuna addresses new Astros teammates in closed-door meeting
LOS ANGELES - Roberto Osuna is getting a second chance with the Houston Astros. They also made it clear they won’t give him another one. The All-Star closer met his new Astros teammates Sunday a...
Aug 5, 2018
Geoff Snider says goodbye to playing competitive lacrosse - again - after worlds
Geoff Snider was done playing lacrosse. He’d retired from the Calgary Roughnecks ahead of the 2016 National Lacrosse League season and had been happy running ELEV8 Lacrosse, his playing academy....
Aug 5, 2018
Police release man arrested in shooting of German tourist near Calgary
COCHRANE, Alta. - A man who was arrested in an investigation into the shooting of a German tourist west of Calgary has been released without charges. RCMP say they and Calgary police are still activel...
Aug 5, 2018
Plastic degrading in the ocean produces greenhouse gas, new study says
Beyond simply piling up along the coast, discarded plastics that end up in the ocean could also be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by a Canadian-led team of researcher...
Aug 5, 2018
Greece's police, fire chiefs fired in wake of deadly fire
ATHENS, Greece - The Greek government announced Sunday that the chiefs of the national police and fire service had been fired and replaced by their deputies in the wake of a forest fire that killed at...
Aug 5, 2018