Category Archives: Canadian Press

The advance in technology at the World Cup is evident in more than use of VAR (Video Assistant Referee). The 32 teams will have stats tablets to see in-game positional data on players and the ball. It...

TORONTO - Masai Ujiri was playing for the Derby Storm of the British Basketball League against a tough Birmingham Bullets team coached by a 20-something Nick Nurse. It was 1995, and the first meeting ...

MONTREAL - The elegant draft horses that pull tourist caleches through Old Montreal will soon be clip-clopping their way into the city’s history books as the municipal administration moves forwa...

HALIFAX - There have been no reported deaths of North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters this year - with dozens of the endangered mammals spotted amid strict fishing and vessel speed restrictio...

VANCOUVER - Metis grandmother Elaine Durocher, who has lived on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 11 years, says it’s time for an investigation into the disproportionate rate that Indigeno...

JERUSALEM - Sarah Idan, Iraq’s 2017 Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant, is visiting Israel this week, a trip that has enraged people back home. Idan was criticized and received death threat...

TORONTO - The sales practices of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies - a long-time sore spot for many consumers - will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal governm...

RED DEER, Alta. - A Humboldt Broncos player who was injured in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan has become an assistant coach for the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs. Graysen Cameron, a 19-year old forwa...

ROCKPORT, Texas - Country star George Strait leads a new tourism campaign for Hurricane Harvey-damaged Rockport and Fulton nearly 10 months after the storm devastated the area he sometimes calls home....

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin craves sporting glory, and he got another taste of it in the opening match of the World Cup. Russia ended a 16-year wait for victory in the tournament by routing Saudi Arabia 5...