Category Archives: Canadian Press

TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - A Quebec teenager has been arrested after another teen was beaten in an attack filmed and shared on social media. The suspect is expected to be arraigned today in Quebec youth c...

BRUSSELS - The European Union said Monday it has extended restrictions on doing business with companies or officials in Ukraine’s Crimea region and the city of Sevastopol for a year over Russia&...

TORONTO - Ontario’s incoming premier has put the public service under a hiring freeze as part of a series of measures meant to limit spending as he re-examines the province’s books, raisin...

HAMILTON - Either one of two shotgun blasts that hit an Indigenous man from within a couple of metres would have killed him, a second-degree murder trial heard on Monday. However, an experienced foren...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A funeral will be held for fashion designer Kate Spade this week in Kansas City, where she was born. The Kansas City Star reports that services for Spade are planned for 3 p.m. Thur...

OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog has closed the last in a series of probes facing Bill Morneau, deciding that the finance minister didn’t violate any conflict of interest laws last year as t...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Monday that he was diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago with Parkinson’s disease, but said he believes that treatment has stopped the progression ...

TORONTO - Canada has dropped one spot to No. 22 in the World Rugby rankings in the wake of Saturday’s 43-20 loss to Russia in Ottawa. Russia remained unchanged at No. 19 after registering its fi...

HARBOUR GRACE, N.L. - Hope was fading for a beached whale as night fell Monday on a small coastal community in eastern Newfoundland. Wayne Ledwell of Whale Release and Strandings said the adult minke ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed electoral maps that were challenged as excessively partisan to remain in place for now, declining to rule on the bigger issue of whether to put limits ...