Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould is about to become the first federal cabinet minister in history to take a maternity leave. Gould is expecting her first child in early March and...

TORONTO - All three candidates vying to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have distanced themselves from a party commitment to replace the governing Liberals’ cap-and-trade system w...

NEWNAN, Ga. - Police say a stranger spanked a man’s 2-year-old son at a grocery store in Georgia when the toddler kept asking his dad for a candy bar. A Newnan police report says 62-year-old Jua...

PELLY CROSSING, Yukon - It’s known as the toughest, coldest race on Earth and the ultra-marathon in Yukon certainly lived up to its reputation this year. Temperatures dipped as low as -45 C as c...

GANDER, N.L. - Police are investigating the sudden death of a 14-year-old Newfoundland girl, saying they are aware of social media allegations in the case but don’t yet know what precipitated th...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The father of an Alabama teenager missing in Aruba since 2005 is denying his ex-wife’s claims that a television show about the case was faked. Dave Holloway, an insurance agen...

LOCUST GROVE, Ga. - A police officer whose wife is expecting the couple’s second baby was killed Friday and two deputies were seriously wounded in a shooting that also left a suspect dead south ...

WINNIPEG - A witness told a Winnipeg murder trial he saw the man accused in the death of Tina Fontaine fighting with the 15-year-old a few weeks before her body was found. Raymond Cormier, who is 55, ...

Philadelphia’s mayor on Friday praised fans for their largely peaceful revelry at the Eagles’ Super Bowl parade, noting only a few “small hiccups” during a celebration that inc...

MONTREAL - A Sri Lankan man charged with killing his wife but set free after his legal proceedings took too long will likely never get a new trial in Canada, Quebec’s appellate court ruled Frida...