Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - More than 200 firefighters from across Canada and the northeastern United States have been sent to Quebec this month to help fight forest fires. Quebec’s forest fire protection servic...

WORCESTER, Mass. - A Massachusetts beauty queen has given up her crown due to a joke about the #MeToo movement. NBC 10 Boston reports Maude Gorman resigned on Saturday as Miss Plymouth County for the ...

OTTAWA - In the last decade, Gabriela Stafford has found solace out on long runs. And when pre-race nerves threaten to derail her, she finds strength in thinking of her mom. The 22-year-old from Toron...

TORONTO - Ryan Borucki’s introduction to the big leagues hasn’t been easy, but the rookie left-hander is embracing the challenge. Borucki went seven innings allowing just one earned and pi...

LONDON - Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient” was named the greatest-ever winner of the Man Booker Prize at an event Sunday celebrating five decades of the prestigious literary a...

OTTAWA - Marco Arop was a star-struck 17-year-old watching the men’s 800-metre final at the Canadian track and field championships in 2016. “I remember a friend of mine saying ‘That&...

MONTREAL - A group of Hasidic Jews in a town north of Montreal will be forced to leave the residence where they’ve been staying following a Quebec Superior Court injunction, the town’s may...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police says it is unlikely to reach its goal of having 2,000 officers trained to spot drug-impaired drivers when marijuana becomes legal later this year....

NEW YORK - Despite its heroes’ diminutive size, “Ant-Man and the Wasp” opened with typical Marvel might at the box office, with an estimated $76 million in ticket sales. According to...

ISTANBUL - At least 10 people were killed and more than 70 injured Sunday when a passenger train derailed in northwestern Turkey, Turkish authorities said. Five of the train’s six cars derailed ...