Category Archives: Canadian Press

TAMPA, Fla. - Paul O’Neill, the founder of the progressive metal band Trans-Siberian Orchestra, died of an accidental drug overdose, a Florida medical examiner said in a report released Tuesday....

SHANGHAI - The arrest and disappearance of three labour activists investigating a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump shoes in China prompted a call for her brand to stop working with the suppl...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH’-moh) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have announced plans for a permanent dedication at the Sept. 11 Memorial that would recognize rescue and r...

TORONTO - It will be of small comfort to the Vancouver Whitecaps but MLS has fined and suspended D.C. United forward Jose Ortiz one game for simulation/embellishment. The simulation, which saw Ortiz t...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The creation of the northern territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, is celebrated in the latest stamp to mark Canada’s 150th birthday. Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna - along wi...

PITTSBURGH - Penguins winger Jake Guentzel was such an unknown commodity that his own captain hardly knew who he was before the season began. “I heard some of the scouts and some of the people w...

OTTAWA - Federal Liberals are nervous about the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline project as a political shake-up in British Columbia seems likely to produce a provincial government that opposes t...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, May 30 --- TRUDEAU STANDS BY KINDER MORGAN IN B.C.: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing by the Kinder Morgan pipeline project, even as the New Democrat...

OMAHA, Neb. - A man convicted of killing four people in Omaha in 2013 has been given Nebraska’s first death sentence since the state’s voters reinstated the punishment in November. A three...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays reinstated left-hander J.A. Happ from the disabled list Tuesday and optioned reliever Dominic Leone to triple-A Buffalo. Happ spent six weeks on the DL due to a left el...