Category Archives: Canadian Press
'Top guns', not Chris Neil, push Sens to brink of Eastern Conference final
OTTAWA - According to post-game lore, Chris Neil’s feisty presence provided the spark that breathed new life into the Senators’ playoff chances. But in reality it was Ottawa’s best p...
May 07, 2017
Rugby league a hit out of the box as Toronto Wolfpack celebrate home win
TORONTO - The weather was poor, the venue rudimentary and the game churlish. But when the dust settled Saturday, the Toronto Wolfpack celebrated their first win on Canadian soil after thumping Oxford ...
May 07, 2017
Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts
CAIRO - Archaeologists and conservation experts met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the safe transportation of King Tutankhamun’s throne, chests and bed from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo t...
May 07, 2017
Report: Comedian Stephen Fry focus of blasphemy complaint
LONDON - Police in Ireland are refusing to comment on a blasphemy complaint and investigation involving British comedian Stephen Fry. The inquiry came to light when the Irish Independent newspaper rep...
May 07, 2017
Syria rejects international forces in safe zones
BEIRUT - Syria on Monday dismissed the idea of foreign forces patrolling four so-called de-escalation zones that are to be established under a deal struck by Russia, Iran and Turkey, suggesting Damasc...
May 07, 2017
Detroit Packard car plant still in ruins 3 years after sale
DETROIT - Peruvian developer Fernando Palazuelo saw the hulking and crumbling Packard car plant on Detroit’s east side and vowed to turn the industrial ruin that’s a symbol of the cityR...
May 07, 2017
Jurors will be asked if Tulsa cop went too far with shooting
TULSA, Okla. - Jurors hearing the manslaughter case against a white Oklahoma police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year will be asked to decide whether she used appropri...
May 07, 2017
Franklin researchers hope to link DNA from sailors' bones with descendants
Researchers who have completed the first genetic analysis on the bones from the crew of the doomed Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic say they’re hoping to meet living descendants to m...
May 07, 2017
Canadian senior with home in Florida barred from U.S. over voter-registration form
TORONTO - A Canadian retiree says he’s been left with no choice other than to sell his house in Florida after being banned from the United States for what he believes was a long-buried bureaucra...
May 07, 2017
Tim Hortons CEO brushes aside skepticism of ambitious U.K. expansion plans
TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons is brushing off skepticism that the British will embrace its double-doubles and Timbits as it readies to open its first location in the United Ki...
May 07, 2017