Category Archives: Canadian Press

The world men’s curling championship will return to Alberta in 2019. The World Curling Federation and Curling Canada issued a joint statement Wednesday confirming the 2019 event will be held at ...

EDMONTON - Two old English bulldogs named Rocky and Jersey are the focus of a police search for a pickup truck in which both pooches were waiting for their master when their ride was stolen this week ...

WINNIPEG - Free agency among Canada’s top curling teams picked up steam with another team announcing changes Wednesday. Mike McEwen’s team from Winnipeg announced on Facebook they will dis...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Nexen Energy has pleaded not guilty to eight charges stemming from a fatal explosion at the company’s oilsands site in northern Alberta. Drew Foster, who was 52 and from N...

WASHINGTON - The House overwhelmingly approved a bill to improve school safety Wednesday, the first gun-related action by Congress since the shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida high school. The bi...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued a blanket condemnation of terrorist acts Wednesday following media reports about his attendance at a California rally three years ago that sang the praises of ...

Students hoisted “Stand United” signs. They chanted “”Hey, hey, ho, ho – the NRA has got to go” outside the White House. Others put 14 desks and 3 podiums in a circ...

Trey Rutherford can’t wait to become a football player again. The burly six-foot-five, 312-pound offensive guard is preparing for the University of Connecticut’s pro day next Wednesday. Th...

EDMONTON - A man accused in the attempted murder of an Edmonton police officer is facing a trial after two mental-health assessments found he’s fit to do so. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif faces 12 charg...

TORONTO - Selling legal pot somewhere other than government-run stores in Ontario would be “reckless,” the province’s premier said Wednesday, slamming comments from Tory leader Doug ...