Category Archives: Canadian Press
Dumped Tory candidate squabbles with leader, is 'looking into' continuing her bid
HALIFAX - An ejected Tory candidate says she is looking into continuing her bid for public office, as she traded fresh barbs with the party’s leader about whether she faced a double standard whe...
May 17, 2017
Resolute U.S. racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace moved to California
TORONTO - A racketeering lawsuit launched by multinational forestry giant Resolute Forest Products against Greenpeace should be heard in California, an American court has ruled. Amid a ramped-up publi...
May 17, 2017
Guay, Osborne-Paradis lead Canada's alpine team into 2017-18 season
CALGARY - World champion Erik Guay and bronze medallist Manny Osborne-Paradis are the headliners of Canada’s alpine ski team for next season. Alpine Canada announced its World Cup alpine and ski...
May 17, 2017
Raonic downs Haas in straight sets, advances to third round at Italian Open
ROME - Canada’s Milos Raonic advanced to the third round of the Italian Open with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Germany’s Tommy Haas on Wednesday. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., used his dominant ser...
May 17, 2017
Daredevil Nik Wallenda's wife to dangle by her teeth over Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - The trapeze-artist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda is planning her own stunt high above Niagara Falls. Five years after Nik Wallenda walked over the falls on a high wire, aerialis...
May 17, 2017
Gisele Bundchen: Tom Brady had a concussion last year
BOSTON - Tom Brady played through a concussion last year on his way to a fifth Super Bowl title, according to his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen. The injury, which was not reported by the team, left...
May 17, 2017
Comedian's 'Nazi slut' jab at German politician ruled legal
BERLIN - A German court has ruled that a comedian’s comments calling a leading figure in the nationalist Alternative for Germany party a “Nazi slut” on a television show were satiric...
May 17, 2017
No one took command during gunman's 2014 Moncton rampage, RCMP trial told
MONCTON, N.B. - No one took command during a 2014 shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B., so officers were forced to make their own decisions amid the chaos, a retired assistant RCMP commissioner told the ...
May 17, 2017
Leonard Marshall, Matt Hasselbeck pledge brains to research
BOSTON - Two more retired football stars have pledged their brains to research. Two-time Super Bowl champion Leonard Marshall and three-time Pro Bowl selection Matt Hasselbeck say they will donate the...
May 17, 2017
Family ties: Move to Winnipeg gives Bombers' Harris chance to be a full-time dad
WINNIPEG - Little girls often don’t like to share daddy-daughter time, but that's not the case when Andrew Harris is out with nine-year-old Hazel. When fans come up to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ...
May 17, 2017