Category Archives: Canadian Press

MIAMI - College dropout Wayne Huizenga started with a trash hauling company, struck gold during America’s brief love affair with VHS tapes and eventually owned three professional sports teams. H...

NORTH BAY, Ont. - An impressive round-robin record doesn’t necessarily mean Canada’s Jennifer Jones is a lock to win a world championship for the first time in a decade. The Winnipeg team ...

TORONTO - Two of three members of a family killed at their suburban Ontario home last week were stabbed while the third was strangled, according to autopsy results released by police on Friday. The au...

KABUL - Health officials say 12 killed, 40 wounded in car bombing outside sports stadium in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The Associated Press

KABUL - An official says in says 12 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in a car bombing outside a sports stadium in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Aminullah Abed, the chief of the pr...

BURNABY, B.C. - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and a New Democrat MP were arrested Friday at a protest against Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia. May...

CORALVILLE, Iowa - Inmates from an eastern Iowa prison have spent weeks learning German and perfecting inflections to make their New York City opera debut in a broadcast performance of Beethoven’...

MIAMI - H. Wayne Huizenga, a college dropout who built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment, AutoNation and three professional sports franchises, has died. He was 80. Huizenga (HY...

HALIFAX - Seven black janitors being laid off from their cleaning jobs at a Halifax office building are accusing the property manager and an incoming contractor of racial discrimination. The unionized...

PARIS - Southern France has faced another terror attack, as an armed man opened fire on police officers Friday and took hostages in a supermarket before being shot dead by police. The attacks in a reg...