Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Doug Perovic loves his job, but he also wishes he didn’t have to do it. If he’s involved, it usually means something catastrophic has occurred. The University of Toronto engineer...

LEICESTER, England - Leicester has handed out around 30,000 masks depicting the face of Jamie Vardy to supporters at the team’s English Premier League match against Everton, a move widely regard...

Jonathan Drouin’s future with the Tampa Bay Lightning looked particularly bleak at this point last year. The third overall pick of the 2013 draft was unhappy in Tampa then amid inconsistent oppo...

TORONTO - The smile was priceless, a rare spontaneous moment in the Olympic pressure cooker that will go down as one of the most enduring images of the Rio Summer Games. Andre De Grasse had cruised up...

EDMONTON - Alberta's conservative political parties, two stubborn rams of provincial politics for almost a decade now, appear poised to lock horns once again in 2017. An entirely new entity may emerge...

Larry Cain never put his paddle down, even after a successful Olympic career. The gold and silver medallist in sprint canoe in the 1984 Summer Games continues to win, and beat paddlers younger than hi...

LONDON - Grieving fans on Monday mourned the death of George Michael as British charities revealed that the pop star had secretly been a major behind-the-scenes donor who gave his time and money to su...

BLOCKHOUSE, N.S. - A falconer, a university student from Vietnam, a toddler and miniature horse gathered around the Christmas tree at a farmhouse in Nova Scotia for a turkey dinner shared by ten near ...

CHICAGO - The fury of the winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day was weakening Monday evening, but blowing and drifting snow continued to hamper travel in many areas. ...

BATANGAS, Philippines - A powerful typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday after killing at least six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces, where more than 380,000 people ...