Category Archives: Canadian Press

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador’s president has ramped up pressure on Julian Assange to leave his country’s embassy in London, saying that Britain had provided sufficient guarantees that the Wiki...

TORONTO - The Toronto Defiant will open their inaugural season in the Overwatch League on Feb. 15 against the Houston Outlaws while the Vancouver Titans start the next day against the Shanghai Dragons...

MADRID - The European police agency says Spanish authorities have arrested 37 people suspected of belonging to a Vietnamese people-smuggling ring that has earned an estimated 13 million euros ($14.8 m...

TORONTO - If fighting doesn’t pay off, Brad (Superman) Katona has a degree in mechanical engineering in his back pocket. But so far so good for the 26-year-old from Winnipeg. Katona, competing a...

CALGARY - A jury in a Calgary murder trial has heard how cellphone calls from a man charged in the deaths of a woman and her young daughter led to the discovery of one of the alleged victims. Edward D...

BERLIN - Keep your blue suede shoes behind the curb: the central German town where Elvis Presley was stationed as a U.S. soldier in the 1950s has installed three pedestrian lights with images of the A...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services firms grew at a slightly stronger pace in November, a sign that the recent stock market sell-offs have yet to dampen enthusiasm among consumers. The Institute for Supply Man...

LONDON - A British woman sailing solo in a round-the-world race is being rescued after losing her mast and being knocked unconscious in a vicious storm in Southern Ocean. Golden Globe Race officials s...

MONTREAL - Fourteen beams of light shone into the night sky from Montreal’s Mount Royal Thursday evening in memory of the 14 women who died at the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school 29 years...

HAMILTON - Canada Basketball has named the new Canada Elite Basketball League as the official first divisional professional league partner of Canada Basketball. The partnership makes the CEBL a Divisi...