Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Pivotal Terrebonne byelection sees preliminary 20% voter turnout in advance polls
OTTAWA - Almost 38,000 people voted in the advance polls in three byelections that could give Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals a majority government, with the highest advance turnout in Terrebonn...
Apr 07, 2026
Michigan finishes at No. 1 in final AP Top 25 men's basketball poll; UConn, Arizona, Duke and Illinois round out top 5
Michigan is No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the 2025-26 season after winning the program's first national championship in 37 years. The Wolverines (37-3) c...
Apr 07, 2026
South Carolina's Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn's Auriemma
COLUMBIA - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tou...
Apr 07, 2026
Advocates have little hope social housing needs in Quebec will be addressed soon
MONTREAL - Brique par brique, a non-profit that builds housing in Montreal, has been trying to develop more city-owned land for years, but the group says securing money for new projects is getting har...
Apr 07, 2026
Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'truly unacceptable'
ROME (AP) - Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization was "truly unacceptable" and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate interna...
Apr 07, 2026
Romanian soccer great Mircea Lucescu has died at age 80
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian soccer great who was a serial trophy winner as a player and a coach, has died. He was 80. Lucescu's death was confirmed by Bucharest University E...
Apr 07, 2026
Death of unhoused migrant in Montreal was avoidable, community workers say
MONTRAL - A Montreal community worker says she tried to help a 42-year-old undocumented migrant weeks before he died on the street in the Park Extension neighbourhood. Amina Saman works with a handful...
Apr 07, 2026
Canadian Hockey League players helping reshape college hockey after rule change permits them to play
Sidney Crosby never played for an NCAA title. Neither did Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid or, going way back, Wayne Gretzky. For decades, the stars of the Canadian Hockey League were deemed pros as j...
Apr 07, 2026
Coach Sheldon Keefe and the Devils face uncertainty after GM Tom Fitzgerald's departure
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Tom Fitzgerald called Sheldon Keefe on Monday to tell the coach he hired that after more than six years as general manager of the New Jersey Devils, he was leaving the organization...
Apr 07, 2026
'War crimes': Iranian Canadians horrified by Trump's latest threat to destroy Iran
TORONTO - Foad Farhani was driving to work Tuesday morning when his wife called him in tears while reading U.S. President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social threatening the existence of their homelan...
Apr 07, 2026