Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Raptors eye best player available with 19th pick in next week's NBA draft
TORONTO - The message was clear from Dan Tolzman. The Toronto Raptors will be sticking to the script in going for the best player available in next week's NBA draft. With the deepest draft class in re...
Jun 16, 2026
End of NHL broadcasts on CBC raises public access questions, advocacy group says
A media advocacy group says the end of NHL broadcasts on CBC television raises concerns about public access to a cherished Canadian tradition. Friends of Canadian Media says "Hockey Night in Canada" h...
Jun 16, 2026
End of NHL broadcasts on CBC raises public access questions, advocacy group says
A media advocacy group says the end of NHL broadcasts on CBC television raises concerns about public access to a cherished Canadian tradition. Friends of Canadian Media says "Hockey Night in Canada" h...
Jun 16, 2026
Four-team expansion magnifies PWHL draft, defender Caroline Harvey top prospect
The Professional Women's Hockey League draft Wednesday in Detroit arrives amid unprecedented player movement in the league's short history. Expansion teams in Hamilton, Detroit, Las Vegas and San Jose...
Jun 16, 2026
Evacuation order downgraded to alert as wildfire is held in West Kelowna, B.C.
WEST KELOWNA - Joe Gluska, his wife and his daughter had 45 minutes to pack what mattered most to them after RCMP officers came to their door in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday, telling them to get out...
Jun 16, 2026
France striker Kylian Mbappé scores 13th and 14th World Cup goals, moving into tie for 3rd all time
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Kylian Mbapp passed Pel and Lionel Messi on the World Cup goal-scoring list and moved into first in the record books for France's national team. Mbapp scored his 13th and ...
Jun 16, 2026
Justice minister says he will review MAID committee testimony before making decision
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he will take time over the summer to review the work of a committee tasked with determining whether Canada is ready to allow people with mental illness acces...
Jun 16, 2026
Police say no criminality suspected after 12 students injured at B.C. waterpark
CHILLIWACK - Mounties in British Columbia's Fraser Valley say early indications show no criminality after 12 students were hospitalized Monday in what appears to have been an electrical accident at a ...
Jun 16, 2026
Panama found its World Cup sanctuary in small Ontario town of New Tecumseth
NEW TECUMSETH, ONT. - Far from the FIFA World Cup hubbub that has gripped Toronto to the south, there is also plenty of soccer spirit to be found in a small town about a 90-minute drive from the Ontar...
Jun 16, 2026
Hosting FIFA World Cup will change soccer in Canada forever: organizer
VANCOUVER - Watching the first men's World Cup game to ever be played on Canadian soil, Peter Montopoli felt grateful - and relieved. The country's chief tournament officer has spent the past decade w...
Jun 16, 2026