Category Archives: Canadian Press

The mother of LeSean McCoy’s young son said in a court filing Tuesday that she agreed to defend the Buffalo Bills running back against an allegation that he abused the boy even though she said s...

PAIN COURT , Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to stand up for the province’s farmers during a briefing on NAFTA talks in Washington this week, saying Tuesday that any version of the trade ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The chief prosecutor for South Carolina’s capital city was indicted Tuesday on more than two dozen charges related to the misspending of public funds on trips to foreign countri...

SURREY, B.C. - Yet another injury has Travis Lulay back on the sidelines. The veteran B.C. Lions quarterback had his left shoulder dislocated when he was tackled by Montreal Alouettes defensive end Jo...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The RCMP is borrowing an idea from the United Kingdom by using a cut-out of a police officer to try and slow down traffic in Coquitlam, B.C. The Mounties have dubbed the life-sized f...

OTTAWA - Newly released statistics on opioid-related deaths in Canada through the first three months of the year suggest such fatalities are on the rise compared to each of the last two years. The lat...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it will be doing “damage control” after Opposition leader Jason Kenney’s visit to India. Trade Minister Deron Bilous says there appears to be c...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is taking a personal interest in the possible poisoning of a Canadian member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. German doctors have b...

LONDON - American performance poet Danez Smith has won the prestigious Forward Prize for the collection “Don’t Call Us Dead.” At 29, the poet from St. Paul, Minnesota is the youngest...

RUSE, Bulgaria - Canada dropped its second straight match at the world men’s volleyball championship on Wednesday, falling 3-1 to France. Set scores were 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 25-17. Earvin Ngape...