Category Archives: Canadian Press
Man yells 'there's no Santa' at Florida holiday event
CAPE CORAL, Fla. - It wasn’t the Grinch who stole Christmas. It was a man who screamed “there’s no Santa Claus” over and over during a recent holiday festival in Florida. A sou...
Dec 07, 2018
Meng Wanzhou's rise through the ranks at Huawei
NEW YORK - Before her dramatic arrest in Canada, few in the U.S. had heard of Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 46, is chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of the board of Chinese telecom company Huawei. S...
Dec 07, 2018
Gushue downs Koe 11-6 to make semifinal at Canada Cup; Koe headed for tiebreaker
ESTEVAN, Sask. - Brad Gushue snapped Kevin Koe’s four-game win streak and earned a spot in the semifinal at the Canada Cup on Friday. Gushue’s rink (4-2) from St. John’s, N.L. topped...
Dec 07, 2018
Walker, Snith lead Canada luge team into next Olympic quadrennial
CALGARY - If luge teams had captains, Tristan Walker and Justin Snith inherited the “C” for Canada. The retirements of Alex Gough and Sam Edney made the doubles duo of Walker and Snith the...
Dec 07, 2018
Iran connection emerges as Canada's envoy briefs China on Huawei arrest
OTTAWA - As details of American allegations against a Chinese executive were revealed Friday in a Vancouver court, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada’s ambassador in Beijing ...
Dec 07, 2018
Former Roughrider Justin Cox gets one year in jail for assault on ex-girlfriend
REGINA - A one-time player with the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders has been sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting his former girlfriend. Former defensive back Justin Cox pleaded guilty in Septemb...
Dec 07, 2018
Oil producers join forces and cut production again
VIENNA - Oil prices spiked sharply higher Friday as major oil producers, including the OPEC cartel, agreed to cut global oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day to reduce oversupply. Following two...
Dec 07, 2018
Canadian Lacrosse Association to discuss dropping use of 'midget' term
TORONTO - The Canadian Lacrosse Association is the latest domestic sport federation to consider dropping the term ‘midget’ from its youth category classification system. The move comes aft...
Dec 07, 2018
Benevides out in Edmonton as CFL clubs continue to wrestle with operations cap
EDMONTON - Mike Benevides is the latest casualty of the new CFL non-player operations cap. The Edmonton Eskimos announced Friday that Benevides will not be returning to Jason Maas’s coaching sta...
Dec 07, 2018
McGill to announce decision on contentious Redmen team name in January
MONTREAL - A report on renaming buildings, scholarships and other entities at McGill University to adapt to 21st century concerns has exposed the divisive nature of the debate over the name of the sch...
Dec 07, 2018