Category Archives: Canadian Press

'He had no chance:' Concern alerts not received before deadly Manitoba tornado
ALONSA, Man. - Walking through rubble strewn across a Manitoba field where his grandfather’s body was found, Kelly Brown found comfort in locating his grandmother’s wedding ring. Jack Furr...
Aug 07, 2018

Canada's Bouchard out of Rogers Cup after first-round loss to Belgium's Mertens
MONTREAL - Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard says she simply “didn’t deserve” to win her first-round match at the Rogers Cup on a day where two of three Canadians were eliminated. Not ...
Aug 07, 2018
Navajo robotics team heads to international competition
SALT LAKE CITY - A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have w...
Aug 07, 2018
Maryland mom tested positive for opiates after eating bagel
TOWSON, Md. - A Maryland woman has discovered that eating a poppy seed bagel before giving birth carries serious consequences. Elizabeth Eden told WBAL-TV in Baltimore she was in labour in April when ...
Aug 07, 2018
NTSB: Failure to fix rail crossing led to fatal bus crash
JACKSON, Miss. - A train crash into a tour bus that killed four in Mississippi last year stemmed from the railroad and the city failing to improve an unsafe rail crossing, federal safety regulators co...
Aug 07, 2018
Former Malaysian PM faces new charge of money laundering
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will face a new charge of money laundering on Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund, the an...
Aug 07, 2018

ABC to celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse
LOS ANGELES - Mickey Mouse is getting the full star treatment as the iconic character turns 90 this year. ABC on Tuesday announced “Mickey’s 90th Spectacular,” a two-hour prime-time ...
Aug 07, 2018

Canada's Auger-Aliassime stuns Pouille to advance to 2nd round at Rogers Cup
TORONTO - Felix Auger-Aliassime has heard his name pronounced incorrectly so many times it doesn’t even faze him anymore. After beating a Top-20 opponent for the first time in his career Tuesday...
Aug 07, 2018
N.S. recognizes black refugee settlement as historically significant
HALIFAX - A Halifax-area community settled by black refugees who escaped enslavement in the United States two centuries ago has been named a provincial heritage property. The settlement in Beechville ...
Aug 07, 2018
Records: Pilot killed in 2013 wrote letters to Taylor Swift
NASHVILLE - National Transportation Safety Board records show the Canadian pilot killed in a 2013 Tennessee crash had written multiple letters to singer Taylor Swift. WSMV-TV obtained the internal rec...
Aug 07, 2018