Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Scotiabank’s $800-million deal for the naming rights to the Air Canada Centre, home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, is the latest move by a corporation to corner the sponsors...

OTTAWA - Liberal backbenchers have been getting an earful this summer from small business owners outraged by the Trudeau government’s proposals to end what it calls “unfair tax advantages....

NEW YORK - The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association are making a joint donation of US$200,000 to aid relief efforts in the Houston area as tropical storm Harvey has caused intense flooding and d...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 30 --- AIR TRANSAT PASSENGERS TELL HARROWING TALES AT HEARING: Passengers trapped aboard two Air Transat jets described hours on end of sweltering hea...

TORONTO - A Canadian-led international research team is using a “barcoding” system to investigate the growth patterns of individual cells that make up the deadliest form of brain cancer, w...

NEW YORK - In the midst of documenting the flooding in Texas, several news reporters have set aside their roles as observers to help people in danger. They’ve lifted people into boats, connected...

Mike Reilly and the Edmonton Eskimos face a very stiff challenge getting back into the win column. After reeling off seven straight wins, Edmonton (7-2) has dropped two straight. That includes a 54-31...

TORONTO - Nebraska offensive lineman David Knevel opens the season as the CFL Scouting Bureau’s top-ranked prospect for the league’s 2018 draft. The six-foot-nine, 315-pound native of Bram...

CALGARY - Three senior members of the Calgary Police Service have been charged with kidnapping and assaulting a man they believed had information in the 2010 case of an at-risk female youth who they t...

MONTREAL - A disgruntled B.C. bride has filed a national class-action lawsuit against Air Transat for ruining her wedding by allegedly misrepresenting flights as non-stop. Vancouver law firm Rosenberg...