Category Archives: Canadian Press

QUEBEC - A judge on Wednesday accepted Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty pleas to six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder in connection with the shooting at a Quebec City mos...

FORT MCKAY, Alta. - The tiny northern Alberta community of Fort McKay is planning on getting a lot bigger after buying $1.6 million in land from the Alberta government. The Metis community, on the Ath...

HALIFAX - Opposition is mounting against a plan by a kraft pulp mill in Nova Scotia to pump treated waste into the Northumberland Strait, with a group of Maritime fisheries organizations saying the ef...

HONOLULU - A North Carolina man who prosecutors say scammed the University of Hawaii out of $200,000 by lying about his ability to secure Stevie Wonder for a fundraiser concert will be sentenced Wedne...

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa has unveiled the Liberal government’s last budget before the spring election. Here are the highlights: ____ MULTI-YEAR DEFICITS After a year of balanced bo...

TORONTO - Ontario’s Liberal government presented its last budget before the June provincial election on Wednesday, a fiscal plan that pours billions of dollars into health care, child care and o...

MONTREAL - Representatives from the world’s largest industrialized countries agreed that workplace sexual harassment must be addressed to deal with a problem faced by many working women, Canadia...

Ed Ilnicki won’t be a typical rookie when the Ottawa Redblacks open training camp. The five-foot-10, 220-pound running back attended Ottawa’s camp last year before being released. But Ilni...

WINDSOR, Ont. - A man who whipped his six-year-old son with a charging cord for eating his toast too slowly has been given a conditional discharge, radio station CKLW reported Wednesday. In sentencing...

TORONTO - Jamal Murray’s NBA classroom has been the basketball court, and he’s proving to be a fast learner. In just his second season in the league, the barely 21-year-old Canadian has be...