Category Archives: Canadian Press

INVERMERE, B.C. - RCMP in southeastern British Columbia are trying to track a woman who used a young child, possibly her daughter, to help stage a robbery. Cpl. Grant Simpson says police are always co...

OTTAWA - Battle lines are being drawn between Liberals and Conservatives as the government prepares to deploy hundreds of Canadian troops to an as-yet-unannounced United Nations peacekeeping mission i...

The World Cup of Hockey makes its return in Toronto after a 12-year hiatus. Here’s a look at the eight teams involved in the tournament, which opens Sept. 17: Canada The unquestioned favourites,...

OTTAWA - Stocked with No. 1 draft picks, Hart, Norris and Vezina Trophy winners, Team Canada has no one else quite like the five-foot-nine feisty ball of energy that is Brad Marchand. Few in hockey, f...

A 30-year-old Toronto man has become the latest Canadian to successfully complete a solo swim across the English Channel. Samuel Bail finished the roughly 32-kilometre swim on Tuesday, taking 15 hours...

EDMONTON - Former scandal-scarred Alberta premier Alison Redford was immortalized on the walls of the legislature Thursday morning by two staffers who rolled up with no notice, hung her portrait in se...

ALPINE, Texas - A 14-year-old girl died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting and injuring another female student Thursday inside a high school in West Texas, according to the loc...

Ryan Lochte will forfeit $100,000 and a chance to swim at next year’s world championships as part of the penalty for his drunken encounter at a gas station in Brazil during last month’s Ol...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Authorities in Delaware say a tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of unstamped pennies overturned on northbound Interstate 95, spilling its load and jamming traffic. Delaware Sta...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors signed forward E.J. Singler on Thursday. The six-foot-six, 215-pound player averaged 6.4 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 19.3 minutes in five Summer League games, s...