Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Mississauga, Ont., was announced as the host of the 2017 World Ringette Championships on Thursday. The event will be held from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, 2017 at Iceland Arena. “We are very exc...

VANCOUVER - Montreal Alouettes coach and GM Jim Popp hopes a quarterback switch will work as well for his team as it has for B.C. counterpart Wally Buono. With Montreal (3-7) last in the East Division...

SYDNEY, Australia - An 18-year-old man arrested outside the Sydney Opera House after allegedly telling security guards he was under instructions to carry out an attack by the Islamic State group was o...

MONTREAL - Promising Canadiens winger Martin Reway is in hospital in Sloviakia being treated for an undisclosed virus and will miss Montreal’s training camp, the club announced Thursday. The tea...

QUEBEC - Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid was named Team North America’s captain for the World Cup of Hockey on Thursday ahead of its first pre-tournament game. Philadelphia Flyers forward...

WASHINGTON - It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honour to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him - and there’s no worming out of it. Meet Baracktrema oba...

NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, Serena Williams’ bid to make history ended with a shocking loss in the U.S. Open semifinals. A seventh title at Flushing Meadows, which would have been a...

RIO DE JANEIRO - There were moments during Thursday’s bronze-medal bout that Priscilla Gagne couldn’t hear her coach Andrzej Sadej over the raucous cheers of the crowd. The 30-year-old fro...

PHOENIX - The suspect accused of stealing jewelry from Drake’s tour bus during the rapper’s Phoenix concert is a homeless man who works as a janitor. Travion Lamar King, 21, was released o...

QUEBEC - Michel Laplante, his face bloody and scarred, spoke to the media on Thursday about what it was like to survive the recent helicopter crash that killed Quebec singer Roberto Bissonnette and th...