Category Archives: Canadian Press

Statistically speaking, 2016 was not the most dominant calendar year in Sidney Crosby’s storied career. There was 2010, in which Crosby scored the “golden goal” for Team Canada at th...

LONDON - As mourners kept on flocking Tuesday to George Michael’s home in north London, the singer’s former longtime partner and his current boyfriend both spoke of their sadness at his de...

TORONTO - Goaltender Antoine Bibeau as well as forwards Byron Froese and Frederik Gauthier were recalled from the American Hockey League on Tuesday by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bibeau, 22, has a 7-7-2 ...

WASHINGTON - American consumers are the sunniest they’ve been in more than 15 years. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index climbed to 113.7 in December, up from 10...

MONTREAL - Rocco Sollecito, a reputed Mafia leader in Montreal who was murdered last May, was denied a public commemoration Mass in Italy on Tuesday due to his infamy. An archbishop and a local police...

TOKYO - Shares meandered in quiet trading in Asia on Wednesday after the Dow Jones industrial average inched closer to 20,000 and the Nasdaq Composite rose to a record high. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’...

TORONTO - A list of The Canadian Press business newsmakers of the year, as determined in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country: 2016: The Foreign Investor 2015: Bank of Canada governor Stephe...

Calgary’s police chief says the Alberta government has to take more aggressive action on fentanyl if it wants to help addicts and families who are being destroyed. “It is a crisis,” ...

Penny Oleksiak stared at the wall and told herself to be proud of her performance. Her country already was. It was 20 seconds after she touched the timing pad in the women’s 100-metre freestyle ...

TORONTO - A nameless, faceless figure at the heart of the controversy surrounding soaring real estate prices has been named The Canadian Press business newsmaker of the year. As home prices in Vancouv...