Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - It didn’t take long for Lewis Ward to become one of the Ottawa Redblacks’ most dependable players. The rookie kicker hit all five of his field goal attempts, including two 47-yard...

TORONTO - Ontario’s fiscal watchdog said Tuesday it will examine the new Progressive Conservative government’s cancellation of the cap-and-trade program in order to determine how much that...

MONTREAL - Serena Williams is returning to Montreal. The American tennis star has accepted a wild card into the Rogers Cup next month. It will mark Williams’ first appearance in Montreal since 2...

LOS ANGELES - The heart of Yosemite National Park, where throngs of tourists are awe-struck by cascading waterfalls and towering granite features like El Capitan and Half Dome, will be closed as firef...

Montreal-born filmmaker Harry Gulkin, best known for the 1975 movie, “Lies My Father Told Me,” is being remembered as a passionate, generous and funny man who was a great defender of the f...

VANCOUVER - Reports that Vancouver Whitecaps star Alphonso Davies has finalized a transfer to a German soccer giant are bittersweet for his current coach. Multiple media reports say the 17-year-old Ca...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Police say a seven-year-old girl whose body was found at an apartment complex in Langley, B.C., is the victim of a homicide. Police and emergency health services were called at about 9...

OTTAWA - The father of a Royal Military College student who took his own life says the family is upset that Canada’s top general rejected a board of inquiry’s finding that stigma around se...

OAKVILLE, Ont. - Canada’s Ben Silverman was having a great round. His shots had been solid all week. His putter was finally rolling. When he spotted a small rain cloud off in the distance, he di...

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to rely on electronic monitoring, telephone reporting and community supervision to avoid locking up migrants while they await immigration hearings. The government...