Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Several of the country’s marquee figure skaters have stepped away from competition, but Skate Canada’s high performance director says a talented crop of athletes has emerged in...

TORONTO - William Nylander jumps on a loose puck during a power-play drill and rifles a shot inside the far post. That lightning-quick release is on display again a couple minutes later, the puck on a...

TORONTO - Jacob Orellana has been named Canadian Futsal Player of the Year while Damien Wojtiw has been chosen Canadian Para Soccer Player of the Year. Orellana represented Canada in a pair of interna...

OMAHA, United States - Canadian skip Tracy Fleury sits tied for the top spot in Group A of the women’s draw at the second World Cup of the season after round-robin action Friday. Fleury’s ...

HAMILTON - Longtime football coach Jerry Glanville is leaving his post as defensive co-ordinator for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Ticats announced Friday that the 77-year-old Glanville will not return...

OTTAWA - Canada’s justice minister is instructing federal prosecutors in the North that they should no longer prosecute anyone for not disclosing their HIV status to a sex partner where there is...

URANUS, Mo. - The Uranus Examiner, a small Missouri newspaper whose name inspired chuckles and groans when it launched a few months ago, is closing. The paper’s editors announced the end of publ...

CINCINNATI - A film promotion organization in Cincinnati is holding a cattle call for actual cattle. The non-profit Film Cincinnati put out a vague call for a major motion picture Friday, saying it ne...

When Kia and Tamika Nurse were growing up, U.S. college basketball coaches rarely ventured north of the border to scout - and even less so to scout girls. Travelling teams for top female players were ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - As terrified people scrambled out of broken windows, screaming and bleeding and fleeing a mass shooting inside a California bar, Sgt. Ron Helus and a highway patrolman decided ...