Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - It has been a big year so far for Willie O’Ree - full of accolades as he marked 60 years since becoming the first black player in the National Hockey League - but there’s one...

REGINA - The head of Canada’s national police force apologized to the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women Monday while pledging improved relations with Aboriginal communities. R...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana’s Crow Indian Tribe has been unable to account for $14.5 million it received for transportation programs, marking the second time in less than two years the tribe has b...

TORONTO - A local arts organization has set up an installation to help a Toronto community heal after a deadly van attack that devastated the city earlier this year. North York Arts has hung a series ...

HALIFAX - At least four salt water marshes in the Maritimes are to be restored - some of them three centuries after early Acadian farmers first drained them using dikes - in a bid to help absorb the r...

WINNIPEG - A young Indigenous woman’s mother has told a sentencing hearing that her life has been a nightmare since her daughter’s fatal beating that was filmed and shared online. “S...

WASHINGTON - In a story June 25 about a drug derived from marijuana, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the director of the Mayo Clinic’s program for childhood epilepsy. She is Dr...

The Hockey Hall of Fame will announce its induction class Tuesday. Here are some players who might hear their name called: MARTIN BRODEUR The goaltender is considered by many a lock to go into the Hal...

When Tari Shear got her start in the restaurant industry as a hostess, she says enduring sexual harassment was one of the “expectations” of her job. Forced to put up with unwanted advances...

OTTAWA - A small plover and her egg-laden nest are holding hostage the national capital’s biggest music festival. Workers came across the killdeer and its nest just as they were preparing to set...