Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Federal officials have rejected requests from more than 1,500 organizations for funding through the government’s premier summer jobs program, a 12-fold increase since the Liberals added...

WINNIPEG - Patrik Laine wants to hoist the Stanley Cup, but drinking champagne out of the hallowed trophy is another matter. The Winnipeg Jets star sniper doesn’t drink alcohol. Never has. So wh...

TORONTO - Canada has a little more information on who it might face in a repechage tournament to decide the last Rugby World Cup qualifier. Belgium’s 18-10 controversial upset win over No. 20 Sp...

TORONTO - Five things to know about the Ontario government’s throne speech: - Hospitals: The government says it will make “significant investments” in hospital operations to cut down...

OTTAWA - Legal marijuana will be sold in plain packages emblazoned with a yellow health warning and a red stop sign stamped with the silhouette of a pot leaf, according to draft regulations released M...

MIAMI - A Florida nightclub that was shut down after a scantily clad woman rode bareback on a white horse through a crowd will be allowed to reopen. A Miami Beach code official ruled Monday the city s...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon said on Twitter Monday that she’ll challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York’s Democratic primary in September. Her an...

RED DEER, Alta. - Brady Flett says he knew within days of the deaths of an Alberta couple and their daughter that the supposedly grief-stricken son was involved somehow. Flett, though, did not see Jas...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has allowed a Halifax-area father unsupervised parenting time with his child, despite the mother’s objections over his “unorthodox beliefs” on white pri...

HALIFAX - Robbie Weatherbee is watching Tuesday’s budget in Nova Scotia as someone deeply troubled by the state of the province’s mental health system. With the Liberal government poised t...