Category Archives: Canadian Press

BEIJING - Canadian Olympic snowboarder Laurie Blouin earned the bronze medal on Saturday in a World Cup women’s big air final. The 22-year-old Blouin scored 156 points en route to the third-plac...

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - Ivanie Blondin skated to a bronze medal in the women’s mass start final at the ISU World Cup speedskating stop on Saturday. It was the Ottawa native’s second podium fini...

REGINA - Former NHL referee Michael (Mick) McGeough has died. He was 62. The NHL said in a statement Saturday that McGeough died Friday night in Regina. McGeough refereed 1,083 regular-season games an...

CARDIFF, Wales - Forward Courtney Holtkamp scored two tries Saturday to help Canada rally to defeat Wales 38-21 in women’s rugby play. Wales, which trailed 10-7 at the break, led 21-17 after 58 ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has to answer to the findings of two nurses who told a United Nations committee this week that women and girls in Canada are facing abuse so extreme it amounts to tort...

New Orleans chef Isaac Toups celebrates the Cajun cooking he grew up with in his first cookbook. “Chasing the Gator: Isaac Toups and the New Cajun Cooking” is a treatise on Cajun cooking a...

OTTAWA - After spending hours studying a bill that would order an end to postal workers’ rotating strikes, the Senate has voted to think things over for another day. Senators adopted a motion Sa...

MOSCOW - The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real, though he appea...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, there were also 20 Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs and two of them ...

LONDON - Like many a couple before them, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving to the suburbs ahead of the anticipated birth of their first child. Kensington Palace said Saturday that Harry and ...