Category Archives: Canadian Press
Wheeler likes all but three minutes of Jets' Game 2 loss to Golden Knights
WINNIPEG - Blake Wheeler liked 57 minutes of Monday’s game between Winnipeg and Vegas. The other three minutes, not so much. Tomas Tatar and Jonathan Marchessault scored twice for the Golden Kni...
May 14, 2018
Flavours of the world inside the Charlevoix microbrewery's 'La G7' summit brew
BAIE-SAINT-PAUL, Que. - Brewers in Quebec’s Charlevoix region have put the world inside a pint glass by creating a special beer fit for a head of state. As a nod to the 44th annual G7 summit tak...
May 14, 2018
Durant's 37 lead Warriors over Rockets 119-106
HOUSTON - Kevin Durant continues to deliver in the post-season for the Golden State Warriors. He scored 37 points on Monday night to lead the Warriors to a 119-106 win in the long-awaited showdown wit...
May 14, 2018
Marchessault backs up strong words as Knights down Jets to even series 1-1
WINNIPEG - Jonathan Marchessault gave a blunt assessment of the Vegas Golden Knights’ pedestrian effort in Game 1 of the Western Conference final. The winger backed up his strong words in impres...
May 14, 2018
Color war: Zobrist defies MLB again with black spikes
CHICAGO - Ben Zobrist was joined by Chicago Cubs teammates Kyle Schwarber and Steve Cishek in wearing black spikes on Monday despite a warning from Major League Baseball that he was in violation of th...
May 14, 2018
No injuries in fire at Le Devoir building in Montreal
MONTREAL - A cigarette butt tossed into a flower pot is the suspected cause of a fire Monday evening that began on the roof of the building that houses Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper. The newspa...
May 14, 2018
Quebec agrees in principle with a single tax return, administered by the province
Quebec is ready to collect provincial and federal taxes, which would permit citizens to file a single tax return instead of two, Premier Philippe Couillard said Monday. Couillard was responding to a r...
May 14, 2018
Republicans celebrate opening of US embassy in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM - The opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem attracted more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, two billionaire GOP fundraisers and the president’s eldest daughter, putting ...
May 14, 2018
Hitchcock says legendary University of Alberta coach Clare Drake changed hockey
Ken Hitchcock says much of the way hockey is played today comes from legendary University of Alberta coach Clare Drake. Hall of Famer Drake, who died Sunday in his sleep at 89, drew accolades from acr...
May 14, 2018
Poor People's Campaign launches days of protests around US
Activists converged on state capitals around the U.S. on Monday to begin six weeks of non-violent protests calling for new programs to help the millions of Americans who live in poverty, an overhaul o...
May 14, 2018