Category Archives: Canadian Press

HARBIN, China - Canadian speedskater Ivanie Blondin won gold in the women’s mass start event on Sunday at ISU long track World Cup. Blondin, of Ottawa, finished first by 15 hundredths of a secon...

GREELY, Ont. - A two-hour debate Sunday among nine rivals for the federal Conservative leadership often morphed into an autopsy of the party’s ill-fated 2015 election campaign. Candidates clashe...

DAKAR, Senegal - Former British police officer Ben Hooper hopes to make history by swimming every mile of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America. After more than three years of preparation, h...

PARADISE, N.L. - Terry Hussey has never forgotten how Sunday nights used to feel: anxious dread, before another week at a job he hated. So when he became CEO of Vigilant Management in Paradise, N.L., ...

LONDON - Novak Djokovic survived an early setback, and then made it look all too easy. The second-ranked Serb, who has a chance to reclaim the No. 1 ranking at the O2 Arena next weekend, rallied to be...

NASHVILLE - Leon Russell, who performed, sang and produced some of rock ‘n’ roll’s top records, has died. He was 74. Russell’s wife, Jan Bridges, said in a statement that her h...

DORTMUND, Germany - Borussia Dortmund’s chief has confirmed that nine-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will practice with the Bundesliga team. Hans-Joachim Watzke tells Kicker magazine on...

Nashville is down only 1-0 after 20 minutes during a recent home game against St. Louis, but general manager David Poile is already nervous. Given the Predators tenuous start to the season, that feeli...

WASHINGTON - A senior congressional Republican says the GOP’s agenda in the upcoming Congress doesn’t include further investigations of Hillary Clinton. Speaking Sunday on Fox News, House ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Canada is not off to a strong start at the FIFA women’s under-20 World Cup. The Canadian squad suffered a 5-0 loss against Spain in Group B play on Sunday at Bav...