Category Archives: Canadian Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Canada’s Diana Weicker earned a bronze medal in the women’s the 53-kg event Wednesday at the world wrestling championships. Weicker, a native of Kentville, N.S., who wr...

YELLOWKNIFE - A drone pilot who flew a small device too close to incoming aircraft at Yellowknife airport has been fined and grounded for three years. RCMP say Toufic Chamas was charged in September 2...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician changed his pants after being chided for wearing jeans in the legislature chamber. Dougald Lamont, the Liberal leader who was first elected in July, found himself in t...

WINNIPEG - The Calgary Stampeders might appear to be ripe for the picking, but don’t tell the Blue Bombers that. The Stampeders (12-4) visit Winnipeg Friday having lost their last two games, whi...

OTTAWA - A bill to enact a new trade pact with Pacific Rim countries has passed the legislative finish line, making Canada one of the first countries to ratify the 11-country deal. Approving the agree...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A man accused of a child abduction that sparked an Amber Alert in north-central Saskatchewan has pleaded guilty to several charges. Johnathan Gunville, who is 19, has admitte...

MONTREAL - In the light of recent geopolitical tensions in Saudi Arabia, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte has expressed some discomfort with the troop’s performance in that country on Sept...

Concerns raised by the family of an Indigenous teen who died in northern Ontario more than four decades ago have prompted the province’s police force to take a fresh look at the case, the lead i...

NEW YORK - The wave of pipe bombs addressed to prominent Democrats has raised fresh questions about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service and private delivery companies to intercept explosives and ot...

LOS ANGELES - Actress Amber Heard has a movie coming out this weekend that will be new to theatres and mass audiences, but for her it’s actually quite old. “London Fields,” an adapta...