Category Archives: Canadian Press
Only took one day to guarantee 1st-time French Open finalist
PARIS - A year after stunning the tennis world by winning the French Open for her initial tour-level title, Jelena Ostapenko is again in rare company: a first-round loser as the defending champion at ...
May 27, 2018
Hip-replacement technique gets patients back on their feet sooner
TORONTO - Tim Heenan was in his teens when he injured his left hip in a four-metre fall while goofing around with some buddies. When his school hockey coach saw him favouring his leg before practice s...
May 27, 2018
'There are cougars around:' Attack a stark reminder for Alberta family
EDMONTON - When Laura Frost first read about a person being killed by a cougar recently in Washington state, she was immediately reminded that the big cats can be anywhere. “We need to take it a...
May 27, 2018
Searching for daycare is an ordeal, but economists say don't blame the market
Free market forces have given Canadians the ability to summon meals or cars at the touch of a button and demand a million dollars for an urban bungalow; but, as frustrated parents know all too well, t...
May 27, 2018
Manitoba civil servant policy says booze OK, marijuana not, at office parties
WINNIPEG - Manitoba civil servants will be able to swig a beer at office parties, but smoking a joint will still be a no-no after recreational cannabis is legalized, says a draft policy obtained by Th...
May 27, 2018
Huge lightning storms in UK disrupt travel at London airport
LONDON - British meteorologists said thousands of lightning strikes hit the U.K. during a powerful overnight thunderstorm, and a London-area airport reported flight disruptions Sunday after an aircraf...
May 27, 2018
'They're back:' Drug dealers target southern Alberta reserve when payments arrive
STANDOFF, Alta. - A life-and-death battle against drug dealers is being waged on the sprawling Blood reserve in southwestern Alberta, as officials struggle to keep deadly opioids away from its most vu...
May 27, 2018
The controversial rise of the eastern Metis: 'Where were these people all this time?'
HALIFAX - It was 1948 when her father told her. He was laying on the chesterfield in the living room of their Yarmouth, N.S., home, his body ravaged by tuberculosis. “He had consumption and he k...
May 27, 2018
Taliban suicide bombing kills 2 soldiers in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide car bomber struck Afghan troops outside an army base in the southern Helmand province on Sunday, killing at least two of them in an attack claimed by the Taliban. Oma...
May 27, 2018
Some Irish Catholics worried, dismayed after abortion vote
DUBLIN - Irish Catholics attending Sunday Mass were disappointed with the result of a referendum in which voters opted to legalize abortion and think it reflects the weakening of the Church - a situat...
May 27, 2018