Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Desbiens makes 11 third-period saves, backstops Victoire to win over Sceptres
LAVAL - Ann-Rene Desbiens made 20 saves, including 11 in the third period, as the Montral Victoire defeated the Toronto Sceptres 3-1 in Professional Women's Hockey League action Sunday afternoon at Pl...
Dec 07, 2025
Scheib caps World Cup ski stop at Tremblant with win; Grenier out after first run
MONT-TREMBLANT - Valrie Grenier wasn't able to repeat Saturday's exploits in the second leg of the Mont-Tremblant alpine skiing World Cup. Austria's Julia Scheib raced to a giant slalom victory Sunday...
Dec 07, 2025
Canada wins silver in women's team sprint at World Cup speed skating stop
HEERENVEEN - Canadian speed skaters capped the final day of the third World Cup stop of the season with a silver in women's team sprint. Calgary's Brooklyn McDougall, Batrice Lamarche of Quebec City a...
Dec 07, 2025
Star freestyle skier Kingsbury withdraws from moguls final at World Cup opener
RUKA - Star freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury withdrew before the start of men's small final at Sunday's World Cup moguls season opener. Kingsbury, who entered the event with 99 career World Cup victor...
Dec 07, 2025
Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals 'fun' at Putnam competition
ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William L...
Dec 07, 2025
Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals 'fun' at Putnam competition
ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William L...
Dec 07, 2025
Canadian women finish sixth for second week in a row on rugby sevens circuit
CAPE TOWN - Canada finished sixth for the second week in a row on the rugby sevens circuit, giving up a late try in a 12-10 loss to Japan on Sunday at the HSBC Cape Town SVNS. It was Japan's third str...
Dec 07, 2025
Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
OTTAWA - Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66. Thorne spent mu...
Dec 07, 2025
Air Transat to start halting flights Monday after pilots issue 72-hour strike notice
MONTREAL - Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season. The Air Line P...
Dec 07, 2025
Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.'s northwest
British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harv...
Dec 07, 2025