Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government is writing off more than $200 million in outstanding student loan payments that officials will never be able to collect. Recently released spending documents show the g...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed defensive end Craig Roh to a two-year contract on Friday. The six-foot-five, 265-pound Roh spent the last three seasons with the B.C. Lions. Roh had 18 defe...

OTTAWA - Unions representing more than 225,000 federal public servants appealed directly to the prime minister on Friday for an order to block the government from collecting more money from its employ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - One of the world’s largest casino companies will check its guests’ hotel rooms every 24 hours, even if they have a “Do Not Disturb” sign hanging on the do...

TORONTO - Besieged pop-rockers Hedley faced a barrage of more bad news Friday as they were dropped by their management team, abandoned by other musicians opening for them on their cross-Canada tour an...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio man has been convicted of beating a 14-month-old boy to death and tossing his body into a creek with the help of the child’s mother. The woman told jurors that 27-year-o...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is changing course on a controversial policy and will now allow parents to accompany their sick children on emergency air evacuations. Health Minister Gaetan Barrette ...

PARKLAND, Fla. - The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents fai...

LOS ANGELES - “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Girls Trip” breakout star Tiffany Haddish, “Lady Bird” author Greta Gerwig and “The Big Sick” co-w...

WASHINGTON - As badly as things have gone for immigration legislation in the Senate, it’s not looking any easier in the more conservative House. Republican leaders there are scrambling to find e...