Category Archives: Canadian Press
Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson leaves game in Boston with calf tightness
BOSTON - Josh Donaldson is hurting again. The Blue Jays star third baseman, who has a history of calf problems, left Toronto’s 8-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox in the fifth inning Monday with left...
May 28, 2018
Serge Dassault, French aviation industrialist, dies at 93
PARIS - French business executive Serge Dassault, a top aviation and arms industrialist and one of France’s richest men, died Monday in his Paris office. He was 93. Dassault’s family annou...
May 28, 2018
Six Montrealers facing extradition to the U.S. for alleged fraud
MONTREAL - A Pennsylvania woman who is among the alleged victims of a lottery scheme involving six Montreal-area men has testified she lost nearly US$300,000. The six are facing extradition to the Uni...
May 28, 2018
Central Alberta zoo gets $500 in fines after ice cream eating bear video
RED DEER, Alta. - A central Alberta zoo must pay $500 in fines after taking a bear for ice cream at a drive-thru. A video posted on social media in January by Discovery Wildlife Park in Innisfail, Alt...
May 28, 2018
Green Leader Elizabeth May gets $1,500 fine for contempt in pipeline arrest
VANCOUVER - Green Leader Elizabeth May pleaded guilty to a criminal contempt of court charge Monday, moments before a British Columbia Supreme Court judge said the MP exploited her position to encoura...
May 28, 2018
Small New Brunswick city celebrates Canadian major junior hockey championship
BATHURST, N.B. - One of the smallest hockey markets in Canada has big reason to celebrate, and fans in Bathurst, N.B., are doing just that. The Acadie-Bathurst Titan beat the host Regina Pats 3-0 Sund...
May 28, 2018
Halifax's newest navy ship is Canada's oldest: HMCS Oriole joins Atlantic Fleet
HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy’s longest serving commissioned vessel - a sailing ketch that was launched about 100 years ago - officially has a new home port. HMCS Oriole, a 31-metre tall shi...
May 28, 2018
Racial profiling: The complications of shopping while black in Canada
As Seattle-based Starbucks Corp. prepares to close 8,000 U.S. cafes Tuesday afternoon for racial-bias training, Canadian experts are drawing attention to racial profiling north of the border. They say...
May 28, 2018
'Last Cowboys' book chronicles legendary Utah rodeo family
ST. GEORGE, Utah - A Utah family that has produced several generations of rodeo champions is chronicled in a new book called “The Last Cowboys.” The Wrights family book written by New York...
May 28, 2018
'It doesn't bring my father back:' Arrest made in fatal Alberta gas and dash
THORSBY, Alta. - A man has been charged with second-degree murder seven months after a gas-station owner was killed in a gas and dash. Ki Yun Jo, 54, was struck and killed on Oct. 6 outside his Fas Ga...
May 28, 2018