Category Archives: The Canadian Press

Argos' Mike Miller set to open his first training camp as a head coach
GUELPH - With a coaching resume that dates back to 1997, Mike Miller is very familiar with football training camps. But he'll experience a first Sunday. That's when all nine CFL teams open training ca...
May 09, 2026

Israeli drone strikes near Beirut kill 4 and southern airstrikes kill at least 13
BEIRUT (AP) - Three Israeli drone strikes on vehicles just south of Beirut on Saturday killed four people while a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 13, including a man and his 1...
May 09, 2026

'I do my stuff': Fiery Habs goaltender Jakub Dobes stopping pucks, mixing it up
BUFFALO - Jakub Dobes lunged to corral a loose puck near his crease late in the second period. As the Canadiens goaltender lay on his stomach fishing for the vulcanized rubber, Sabres forward Zach Ben...
May 09, 2026

Québec solidaire weighing priorities, including wealth tax and public grocery stores
MONTREAL - Quebec's leftist sovereigntist party will campaign in part on running public grocery stores and a wealth tax ahead of the general election scheduled for October. Qubec solidaire, which hold...
May 09, 2026

Paralympic medallist Leanne Taylor balancing motherhood, para triathlon return
Leanne Taylor is a new mom learning to parent from her wheelchair while she returns to racing Para triathlon. Taylor won bronze in the women's wheelchair division at the 2024 Paris Paralympics to beco...
May 09, 2026

'Team Nigel' rallies behind East Vancouver cat after complaint about feline folk hero
VANCOUVER - As he flops down on an East Vancouver pavement for cuddles and back scratches, Nigel is hardly the picture of a cat with a guilty conscience. But he stands accused of crimes against the ne...
May 09, 2026

Canada doubling down on work to reunite Ukrainian children 'stolen' by Russia: Anand
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada's ongoing work to secure the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials shows how Ottawa is trying to work with a range of cou...
May 09, 2026

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon reflects on five years of reconciliation, Indigenous diplomacy
OTTAWA - Nunavik, where Gov. Gen. Mary Simon grew up, is a long way from Ottawa and farther still from Buckingham Palace. That never stopped her mother Nancy May, a unilingual Inuk, from keeping a pho...
May 09, 2026

Hungary’s Péter Magyar is set to be sworn in as prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungary's incoming prime minister, Pter Magyar, arrived Saturday at the Parliament building to be sworn into office, ending Viktor Orbn 's autocratic 16-year rule. Magyar's ce...
May 09, 2026

Moscow marks Victory Day with a Red Square parade under tight security
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday oversaw a military parade commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II on Red Square. Security was tight in Moscow as Putin was s...
May 09, 2026