Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada's Georgia Simmerling returns to cycling after serious injury
CAMBRIDGE, New Zealand - Just under a year after breaking both her legs during a World Cup ski cross event, Canada’s Georgia Simmerling is set to return to the top level of another sport - cycli...
Jan 17, 2019
President escalates border battle with Democrats, cancels congressional travel
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump grounded Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders Thursday, cancelling - and disclosing - their secret military trip overseas in an apparent fit of pique over the combati...
Jan 17, 2019
Woman survives after runaway snowmobile crashes into home, lands on her
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland man says it’s a miracle his wife is alive after his runaway snowmobile crashed through the window of their home, smashing furniture and pinning her undern...
Jan 17, 2019
Quinoa seeds found at Ontario construction site date back to 900 BC: researchers
Researchers at the University of Toronto say they’ve uncovered a large quantity of quinoa seeds grown in North America thousands of years ago. They say the discovery marks the first time such se...
Jan 17, 2019
Renovations to be revealed at Saskatchewan school where shooting took place
LA LOCHE, Sask. - The mayor of a northern Saskatchewan community says there are mixed feelings as renovations to the high school are revealed three years after a deadly shooting. Four people died and ...
Jan 17, 2019
McGill science group takes aim at pharmacies for selling 'quack' flu remedy
MONTREAL - A McGill University science communication group is taking aim at a commonly available homeopathic flu remedy and questioning why pharmacies continue to sell what it calls “quack remed...
Jan 17, 2019
Google to buy power from solar farms in Tennessee, Alabama
NASHVILLE - Google plans to buy power from Tennessee and Alabama solar farms under a deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Google announced Wednesday that it will buy 413 megawatts of output from ...
Jan 17, 2019
Toronto FC heads for warmth of California to start training camp in earnest
TORONTO - After medicals and two days of fitness training indoors in the frigid north, Toronto FC heads to the warmth and real grass of California on Friday to start training camp in earnest. For coac...
Jan 17, 2019
Another McKeever steps onto cross-country skiing's international stage
Xavier McKeever’s earliest memory of cross-country skiing with his parents is being used as a training aid. Robin McKeever and Milaine Theriault towed their toddler instead of a tire up hills du...
Jan 17, 2019
Cape Breton's Eskasoni First Nation in mental health crisis: chief
ESKASONI, N.S. - Nova Scotia’s largest Mi’kmaq community is in the throes of a mental health crisis, with multiple suicides in recent weeks, the chief of the Eskasoni First Nation says. Le...
Jan 17, 2019