Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks announced on Tuesday that the club has signed three players to professional try-out contracts, including veteran right winger Tuomo Ruutu. Vancouver also signed centr...

CALGARY - Hundreds turned out to pay their respects to CFL legend and former Alberta lieutenant-governor Norman Kwong at a state memorial. Kwong, who was 86, died in his sleep on Sept. 3. Randy Kwong ...

LOS ANGELES - Zayn Malik is telling his life story. Penguin Random House announced Tuesday that it will publish the 23-year-old’s “first autobiography.” “Zayn” will be re...

GENEVA - Lionel Messi’s first goal of the Champions League season took three minutes. Edinson Cavani needed just 44 seconds for Paris Saint-Germain. Manchester City never got the chance to start...

NEW ORLEANS - A family outing tied to giving her 11-year-old son and his friend a history lesson on hip-hop turned into a disappointing experience for singer Solange Knowles when she says a group of w...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal appeals court blocked rules requiring precise completion of thousands of absentee ballots in swing state Ohio, but upheld other challenged election-law changes in a Tuesday ...

OTTAWA - Facts and figures on TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Energy East pipeline: What is it? The 4,500-kilometre oil pipeline is designed to carry 1.1 million barrels of oil or bitumen per day f...

RIO DI JANIERO, Brazil - Canadian swimmer Aurelie Rivard added another gold to the collection of Paralympic medals she’s carefully stashing out of sight in her suitcase. The 20-year-old from Sai...

MONTREAL - The jury has been selected at the fraud trial of a man who made headlines during the federal sponsorship scandal. Jacques Corriveau, 83, is a former longtime federal Liberal organizer and a...

TORONTO - Almost a year ago, Terance Brouse was struggling to hold on to a month of sobriety, free for the first time in years from a life fuelled by booze and drugs, when he stumbled upon an event ca...