Category Archives: Canadian Press

HOUSTON - Outfielder Nori Aoki agreed to a contract with the New York Mets on Saturday and was expected to join the team before its game at Houston. Aoki had a $5.5 million, one-year contract and was ...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec justice minister Jerome Choquette, who helped navigate the province through the October Crisis, has died at the age of 89. His former press secretary Jean-Claude Gobe said Cho...

NEW YORK - Madonna is heading overseas to a new home in Portugal. The Michigan native had been living in New York. She said on Instagram Saturday that she finds the energy of Portugal inspiring, and i...

HIGHLANDS, Texas - As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey’s floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old...

NEW YORK - Fabio Fognini was kicked out of the U.S. Open doubles tournament Saturday and faces a possible permanent ban from all Grand Slam events after vulgarly insulting the chair umpire during his ...

WHITEHORSE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poured nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into Yukon’s highway network Saturday in hopes it will lead to resource development, but some Indigenous l...

REGINA - He’ll be wearing green and white for the Labour Day Classic, but Willie Jefferson will be playing for his hometown and the state of Texas. “If I make a big play, it’ll be fo...

MADRID - Emergency officials in Madrid have lifted their warning to residents living near an industrial fire to remain in their homes to avoid a toxic cloud. Madrid’s emergency services said via...

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Tropical Storm Lidia weakened into a depression as it marched up Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday after flooding streets and homes in resort cities, strand...

BRUNSWICK, Maine - One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall. Carbon dating by the Pejepscot His...