Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - It’s the final straw for plastic at Recipe Unlimited Corporation. The restaurant giant, formerly known as Cara Operations, will start to ditch plastic straws at its 19 brands in August...

GUATEMALA CITY - Authorities on Wednesday raised by more than 130 the number of people officially missing from last month’s deadly eruption of the Volcano of Fire. Guatemala’s disaster age...

NEW YORK - Joey “Jaws” Chestnut extended his reign as champion eater at the Nathan’s Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest Wednesday, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 m...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Wildlife officials in Montana have found a new home in Canada for three grizzly bear cubs that were orphaned in June when their mother was killed by a vehicle. Montana Fish, Wildlife...

VICTORIA - Former Olympic rower Harold Backer received a 13-month jail sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to fraud, but no answers were provided about his mysterious 18 month disappearance that ...

Montreal was the hot Canadian real estate market for Chinese nationals last year as interest slipped in Toronto and Vancouver following the introduction of foreign buyers taxes, says a report from a w...

ESTEVAN, Sask. - An extra women’s curling team has been added to the field for the Home Hardware Canada Cup in December. Headlined by world champions Brad Gushue and Rachel Homan, as well as 201...

WINDSOR, Ont. - World championship track medallist Melissa Bishop is the proud mother of a new baby girl. The native of Eganville, Ont., tweeted she gave birth to Corinne Chidera on Monday morning in ...

TORONTO - A number of laws passed by Ontario’s previous Liberal government have been put on hold by the newly elected Progressive Conservative regime, including measures to tighten rules around ...

MONTREAL - The Montreal International Jazz Festival has cancelled the remaining presentations of a show that has been criticized because it features a white woman singing songs composed by black slave...