Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Maxime Bernier lost the Conservative leadership race, but he remained the top fundraiser right to the end. Newly released figures from Elections Canada show the Quebec MP raised $426,329 in t...

TORONTO - Receivers Duron Carter and Marken Michel and defensive lineman Jackson Jeffcoat were named the CFL’s players of the week Tuesday. Carter had nine catches for 131 yards and two TDs to l...

MADRID - Spain’s National Court has recommended the extradition to the United States of a Russian computer programmer accused by U.S. prosecutors of developing malicious software that stole info...

MADRAS, Ore. - The last time a total solar eclipse blacked out the sun in Oregon nearly 40 years ago, Gene Brick was working in a timber mill that refused to shut down for the spectacle. The World War...

CAIRO - Reda el-Sebaay was taking the subway while on a short business trip to Cairo from a Nile Delta city when he stumbled upon clerics offering religious advice or fatwas - answers to any question ...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks signed receiver/returner Quincy McDuffie to a two-year deal Tuesday. McDuffie, 26, led the CFL in kickoff return average (27.7 yards) last season with the Winnipeg Blue B...

AMMAN, Jordan - The repeal of a Jordanian law that allowed a rapist to escape prison by marrying his victim was bittersweet news for a Jordanian woman whose daughter was assaulted when she was just 13...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he confronted a Chicago Cubs fan during Sunday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers because the man said “some really lousy, awful stuff...

WASHINGTON - Old inns along the Revolutionary War trails boast of George Washington sleeping there. But coin experts say they have found the first silver piece minted by the United States - one likely...

PORT REPUBLIC, N.J. - They’re called “ghost forests” - dead trees along vast swaths of coastline invaded by rising seas, something scientists call one of the most visible markers of ...