Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - A Metis lawyer and scholar who has complained of “racist assumptions” in Canada’s health system has been appointed to fill one of a dozen vacancies in the Senate, making her...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh declared Thursday that he accepts the findings of the Canadian inquiry into the Air India bombing and condemns all that were behind the horror that killed more than 3...

TORONTO - A lawyer who took it upon herself to interfere in a decision to withdraw life support from her severely brain damaged client had no right to do so and deserves to have legal costs assessed a...

EDMONTON - Scientists from the University of Alberta have discovered male red squirrels kill the offspring of their male rivals in years when there’s a lot of food. The research project, publish...

NEW YORK - A new survey reveals fading optimism among homebuilders, and a downward revision in sentiment from February suggests a more sustained perception of deterioration. The National Association o...

HALIFAX - An offshore royalty windfall has prompted the Nova Scotia government to embark on a nearly $245 million spending spree two weeks before the fiscal year ends. The money announced Thursday in ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of a concerted, ongoing operation to hack and spy on the U.S. energy grid and other critical infrastructure, and separately imposed san...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his government resigned Thursday as a way out of the political crisis triggered by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fian...

GLASOW, Scotland - Star winger DTH van der Merwe, Canada’s all-time leading try-scorer, has re-joined the Glasgow Warriors. Van der Merwe, who also holds the Glasgow try-scoring record, spent si...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Broadway production of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is still set to open this year despite a lawsuit filed by the estate of the author, an attorney for t...