Category Archives: Canadian Press
Lease sale in Alaska petroleum reserve draws modest interest
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal sale of oil leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska has again drawn a modest response. The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday received 16 bids on 16 tracts co...
Dec 13, 2018
Study by investors seeking baseball's return to Montreal finds project is viable
MONTREAL - A group of investors trying to bring Major League Baseball back to Montreal released a market study Thursday concluding the project would be viable and would generate strong interest among ...
Dec 13, 2018
WHL's Thunderbirds, Silvertips open to NHL joining Seattle hockey market
TORONTO - The Seattle area’s major junior hockey teams aren’t worried about competing for fans with the NHL expansion franchise coming to town. The real competition in the region has alrea...
Dec 13, 2018
Lions announce seven members of coaching staff not coming back for 2019
VANCOUVER - With a new head coach coming in, the B.C. Lions announced Thursday that seven members of its coaching staff will not be offered a contract for the 2019 season. The team said in a release t...
Dec 13, 2018
Scheer blames Trudeau's 'naive approach' to China for Huawei crisis
OTTAWA - The dilemma Canada finds itself in over its arrest of top Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou is a result of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “naive approach” to China, C...
Dec 13, 2018
Police across Canada probe bomb threats as U.S. authorities dismiss 'hoax'
TORONTO - Police forces in cities across Canada investigated multiple bomb threats on Thursday as authorities in the U.S. said similar threats sent to dozens of locations appeared to be a hoax. Police...
Dec 13, 2018
Quebec theatre incensed by $500 fine for fake cigarette smoked by actor
MONTREAL - Health inspectors who showed up at a recent Quebec City theatrical production took no issue with the actor centre stage in a giant penis costume. But after watching another actor light up a...
Dec 13, 2018
Team Canada veteran Alex Formenton listed day-to-day with leg injury
COLWOOD, B.C. - One of Canada’s two returning players was on crutches Thursday and awaiting word from doctors about when he can hit the ice again after suffering a leg injury Wednesday in a warm...
Dec 13, 2018
Canadian Paralympic skier Brian McKeever wins sprint gold at IPC World Cup event
VUOKATTI, Finland - Canada’s Brian McKeever won a gold medal in a five-kilometre cross-country ski race Thursday at the first stop in the IPC World Cup circuit. The 17-time-Paralympic medallist ...
Dec 13, 2018
Vancouver says court decision allows it to close illegal pot shops
Vancouver says a court decision has reaffirmed the city’s authority to shut down illegal marijuana dispensaries. In a news release, the city says the B.C. Supreme Court’s decision to order...
Dec 13, 2018