Category Archives: Canadian Press

TOKYO - Snoopy may be joining Sony. Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. said Monday that it is buying a stake in Peanuts Holdings, the company behind Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Sony Music Entertainme...

BERLIN - Germany has appealed to the Russian government to let in a journalist who exposed systematic doping in Russian athletics and was denied entry to Russia to report on the upcoming World Cup. A ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli soccer club Beitar Jerusalem says it wants to add “Trump” to the team’s name. The club’s social media accounts say the team “from now on will be calle...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball a...

HALIFAX - A group of Canadian professors is speaking out against a Halifax university’s handling of a residential-schools course imbroglio, saying the race or ethnicity of a professor should not...

CANNES, France - The leaders of the Cannes Film Festival have signed a gender equality pledge promising to make their selection process more transparent and to push their executive boards toward gende...

NEW YORK - Tim Allen’s “Last Man Standing,” cancelled last year by ABC, is being resurrected by Fox next season because it’s a “great comedy” and not as a conservat...

TORONTO - Aurora Cannabis Inc.’s $3.2 billion all-stock offer to take over rival licensed marijuana producer MedReleaf will create what the target company’s CEO described as the “und...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A prominent Canadian aid worker has been arrested at his mountain villa in Nepal and charged with sexually abusing children, an official said Monday. Central Investigation Bureau ch...

LOS ANGELES - Drake is going on tour. The 31-year-old announced the “Aubrey and The Three Amigos Tour” on Monday. Drake will be joined by “Walk It Talk It” collaborators Migos ...