Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - It was the storybook finish to what’s looking more and more like a storybook season for the young Toronto Maple Leafs. Auston Matthews scored a pair of goals in his first-ever game out...

LONDON - With Alexis Sanchez’s cross floating into the penalty area behind him, Olivier Giroud only had one choice: A back-heeled overhead flick. “I was a bit lucky but it was the only thi...

TORONTO - Montreal greats Jean Beliveau and Maurice Richard and Detroit legend Gordie Howe were among the Hall of Famers honoured by the NHL on Sunday as the league started unveiling a list of its 100...

MONTREAL - Canada captain Dylan Strome says a couple of pre-tournament wins against the Czech Republic won’t amount to much when the teams meet in the quarter-finals of the world junior hockey c...

TORONTO - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players’ Association executive director Donald Fehr offered competing visions on the likelihood that NHL players will attend the Pyeongchang Games...

ISTANBUL - The Islamic State group on Monday made an unusual claim of responsibility for a major terrorist attack in Turkey, saying a “soldier of the caliphate” carried out the mass shooti...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is under pressure during his final weeks as president to do something - anything - to secure the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children...

SAO PAULO - Brazil’s two biggest cities on Sunday inaugurated mayors who are political outsiders and whose victories underscored deep frustration with the political class and public corruption. ...

Antonio Guterres took the reins of the United Nations on New Year’s Day, promising to be a “bridge-builder” but facing an antagonistic incoming U.S. administration led by Donald Trum...

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a pickup loaded with explosives struck a bustling market in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group hours after...