Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - A record six teams are paying baseball’s luxury tax this season, led by the Los Angeles Dodgers at $31.8 million and the New York Yankees at $27.4 million. Boston ($4.5 million), Detr...

BERLIN - IOC President Thomas Bach said he feels “shock” and “inner rage” at the extent of Russia’s doping scandal detailed by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richa...

WASHINGTON - An Army major general has been stripped of his stars and forced out of the military after a 30-year military career because of a long extramarital affair and “swinger” lifesty...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Dec. 16 BC CORONER ISSUES WARNING TO DRUG USERS: The British Columbia coroners’ service has issued an urgent warning to illicit drug users after an unpr...

HALIFAX - Schools of dead herring keep washing ashore along the rocky beaches of western Nova Scotia, prompting a retired scientist to enlist the help of local naturalists and bird watchers as he cont...

OTTAWA - It was the final week of Parliament before Christmas, and all through the House.... the Liberals did their best to make sure no one had any time to think about ethics or fundraising before he...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Friday he wants the head of the state’s tourism marketing agency to step down after it refused to publicly disclose it paid rapper Pitbull $1 mil...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Canada captured three medals at World Cup bobsled event on Friday. Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden won a silver in the two-man competition, finishing in one minute 49.74 seconds. T...

MONCTON, N.B. - An announcement Friday begins the final phase of a restoration plan for New Brunswick’s Petitcodiac River. Here’s a timeline of the river’s last 50 years: 1966 - Cons...

PHOENIX - An Arizona man accused of picking up a 2-year-old girl in the home of a family he didn’t know said Friday that he was drinking at a friend’s place and accidentally went into the ...