Category Archives: Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES - Grammy Award-winning rapper Drake helped Twitch break its record for the most-viewed stream by joining gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to play “Fortnite.” There were ...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s natural resources minister says Ottawa is determined to see the Trans Mountain pipeline expanded, despite an interprovincial dispute on whether the project should go ahead. ...

TORONTO - IHeartMedia says it’s operating as usual while working on a plan to reduce its debt by US$10 billion while under bankruptcy court protection from its creditors. Among its branding part...

TORONTO - The executors of an Ontario man’s will are in a dispute with the Canadian Cancer Society over their request that a major portion of a multimillion-dollar bequest to the charity be dire...

CALGARY - Amateur scientists in Canada have helped researchers discover a new type of northern lights. The glowing ribbon of purple - and sometimes green - that runs east-west in the night sky has bee...

CRESSON, Texas - In a story March 15 about an explosion and fire at a North Texas chemical plant, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a missing worker is named Dillon Mitchell. His name is ...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is spending more than $9.1 million to develop and test technologies that alert vessels to the presence of whales, lowering the risk of collisions. Fisheries and Ocea...

LOS ANGELES - The former president of ESPN said he resigned from the sports network after an extortion plot by someone who sold him cocaine. John Skipper told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview pu...

TORONTO - Fresh from its Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal win over Mexico’s Tigres, Toronto FC is pondering some injury question-marks and the prospect of playing on a “ga...

MONTREAL - Olympic figure skater Meagan Duhamel strode slowly from cage to cage Thursday, greeting some of Canada’s newest arrivals from South Korea at an emergency dog shelter in Montreal. R...