Category Archives: Canadian Press
Venezuela vows to reactivate Goodyear plant
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s government says it will reactivate an assembly line after U.S.-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced it will no longer produce tires in the crisis-wracked c...
Dec 11, 2018
Early prison release revoked for drunk driver who killed two teens in Saskatoon
SASKATOON - An early release from prison has been revoked for a drunk driver who was behind the wheel of a stolen truck when she killed two Saskatoon teenagers and seriously injured a third. Cheyann P...
Dec 11, 2018
Young woman who orchestrated murder of teen showed genuine remorse: parole board
After struggling to express empathy in the past, a young woman who pressured her boyfriend into killing his teenage ex more than a decade ago appeared to show genuine remorse at a recent parole hearin...
Dec 11, 2018
Sheldon Kennedy removing name from child advocacy centre he founded
CALGARY - Former NHL player and abuse survivor Sheldon Kennedy is removing his name from a child advocacy centre he founded. Kennedy pitched the idea to Calgary’s police chief in 2010 and the fa...
Dec 11, 2018
Skepticism follows Montreal police plan to combat profiling of racial minorities
MONTREAL - Anastasia Marcelin, originally from Haiti, says she became an activist after witnessing how city police treated her three younger brothers in their Montreal North neighbourhood. She was par...
Dec 11, 2018
Christine Sinclair named Canadian Women's player of the year for the 14th time
TORONTO - Canada teammate Jordyn Huitema hadn’t been born when Christine Sinclair won her first Canadian Women’s Player of the Year Award in 2000. Eighteen years later, Sinclair’s re...
Dec 11, 2018
Former NHL executive Brian Burke invests in his second favourite sport -- rugby
TORONTO - Former NHL executive Brian Burke’s love for rugby started after his hockey playing career ended. Having won the Calder Cup with the AHL’s Maine Mariners in 1978, he started that ...
Dec 11, 2018
Coach Hunter wants up-tempo Team Canada as world junior squad hits ice
COLWOOD, B.C. - Team Canada coach Tim Hunter says the team that looks to defend its world junior hockey title over the Christmas season will be one of the fastest ever. Hunter said he expects to see s...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian warship witnesses possible violations of North Korea sanctions
OTTAWA - The crew of a Canadian warship in the Pacific had front-row seats to potential violations of UN sanctions against North Korea during a recent patrol in the East China Sea - but was under orde...
Dec 11, 2018
Leman in limbo waiting for weather to launch start of World Cup ski cross season
Brady Leman will find out what it’s like racing as the reigning Olympic men’s ski cross champion, if the season ever starts. The 32-year-old Calgarian and the rest of the Canadian ski cros...
Dec 11, 2018