Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Ontario’s new government will uphold a promise to address hospital overcrowding but any action taken must have fiscal restraint in mind, the province’s health minister said Thurs...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Terry Crews and agent Adam Venit have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which Crews alleged Venit groped him at a Hollywood party. Venit’s agency William Morris Endeavor, also na...

MONTREAL - Quebec Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard launched into another defence of supply management on the campaign trail Thursday, pushing back at opponents of the system who argue abolishing it w...

PHILADELPHIA - Former Cleveland Browns linebacker Mychal Kendricks pleaded guilty to insider trading charges on Thursday, and faces up to 25 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter aske...

INDIANAPOLIS - IndyCar driver Robert Wickens fractured his spinal cord and neck, as well as seven other serious injuries, when he crashed at Pocono Raceway. The family of the Canadian driver revealed ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Attorneys for two death row inmates who were spared from execution last year asked Arkansas’ highest court on Thursday to strike down a law that gives the state’s priso...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The Baseball Hall of Fame has opened a new exhibit on Moe Berg, the major league catcher-turned-spy whose story was the subject of a Hollywood film released this summer. “Moe...

WINNIPEG - The federal government has taken another step in transferring control over Indigenous health programs to First Nations. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced $68 million over...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Police searched into the night for two armed men following a daytime shooting in St. Catharines, Ont., on Thursday that sent three people to hospital, two of them in life-threat...

CALGARY - James Neal knows a thing or two about long playoff runs. Mark Giordano hopes that knowledge rubs off on the Calgary Flames. Calgary’s captain intends to pick Neal’s brain about g...