Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Phil Kessel fired the puck hard into the sideboards during a lull in Penguins practice at the University of Ottawa, then bent to one knee and seemed to stew in his own frustration. Kessel had...

EDMONTON - Transport Minister Marc Garneau rolled into Alberta on Thursday to promote his bill that aims to help modernize Canada’s freight rail industry. After getting his photograph taken near...

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week during a visit to the country that will include a brief stop in the Palestinian territor...

BOSTON - A senior at Harvard University is earning praise - and an honours degree - for his debut rap album. Harvard officials say Obasi Shaw is the first student in the university’s history to ...

COLOGNE, Germany - Canada had to overcome a vocal partisan crowd and a fired-up Germany squad to keep its chances of a third straight world hockey championship title alive. Mark Scheifele and Jeff Ski...

ROME - Canada’s Milos Raonic advanced to the quarter-finals of the Italian Open on Thursday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Czech veteran Tomas Berdych. The fifth seed from Thornhill, Ont., used his do...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, May 18 --- U.S. LAUNCHES NAFTA TALKS: The U.S. has given official indication that it wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. U.S. Comm...

OTTAWA - Canada is dealing with an opioid crisis of “unprecedented proportions”, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Thursday as she spoke in defence of a new law that removes 26 strict req...

GORES LANDING, Ont. - The case of a muskrat found badly injured in a diaper box has triggered an investigation by Ontario’s provincial police. Investigators say they’ve determined the musk...

HALIFAX - Ten things you should know about the Transportation Safety Board report on the 2015 crash landing of Air Canada Flight 624 at Halifax Stanfield International Airport: 1. Multiple factors wer...