Category Archives: The Canadian Press

100 days from the Olympics, federal funding question looms over Canadian athletes
Canadian athletes enter the home stretch of preparation for the 2026 Winter Games that start in 100 days, but they'll soon learn whether the organizations that support them can continue to do so. With...
Oct 29, 2025

'We don't hate your team': A look at the NHL's reimagined, tech-driven situation room
TORONTO - Kris King had his focus trained on the left side of a wall of screens. A crease pileup involving a mass of hockey-playing humanity was taking place in one of that night's NHL games. The leag...
Oct 29, 2025

Fact File: Video shared on X shows Maori haka dancer, not B.C. housing minister
A video was shared on social media this week by accounts claiming it shows B.C. Minister of Housing Christine Boyle dancing and lip-synching to audio of ritual chanting, wearing what appears to be Ind...
Oct 29, 2025

Jurors convict Illinois deputy of killing Sonya Massey but can't agree on first-degree murder charge
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff's deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a...
Oct 29, 2025

Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) - Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged...
Oct 29, 2025

Drug crimes up for first time in 12 years, bucking long-term national trend: StatCan
Statistics Canada says the rate of police-reported drug crime is up for the first time in 12 years but remains well below a "historic peak" recorded in 2011, with cannabis legalization being a major f...
Oct 29, 2025

Former teammates Rourke, Adams., to square off in West Division semifinal
Former teammates Nathan Rourke and Vernon Adams Jr. will square off Saturday for the third time this season. Rourke and Adams will be under centre for their respective teams when the B.C. Lions host t...
Oct 29, 2025

Melissa partly to blame for wet, windy Halloween in Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario
HALIFAX - Residents of the Maritimes, Quebec and southern Ontario can expect wet, blustery weather this weekend, but a senior meteorologist says Hurricane Melissa is only partly to blame. The latest f...
Oct 29, 2025

Milan-Cortina reaches 100-day countdown with ice hockey arena still under construction
MILAN (AP) - With 100 days to go until the start of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, preparations are going right down to the wire. The ice hockey arena that is set to welcome back NHL players to th...
Oct 29, 2025

'Call 1-800-Doug-Ford': Ontario, N.B. courting Quebec doctors unhappy with pay law
MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...
Oct 29, 2025