Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - Over 4,000 jobs that were at risk at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, have been secured after unions got a commitment from multinational Tata Steel to keep production there. The announcem...

New research has shed more light on one of Canada’s enduring mysteries - the fate of the Franklin expedition. Scientists used lasers and high-energy beams from the Canadian Light Source in Saska...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government will phase out coal as an electricity source under a new climate change plan that also puts a price on carbon. Premier Brian Gallant said Wednesday that clim...

QUEBEC - The Quebec government is investing $175 million to recruit new judges, prosecutors and other staff to help ease the burden on the province’s overloaded justice system. The plan is to hi...

TORONTO - A man convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in a shootout at a 2012 community barbecue in Toronto was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Two days before the release of a new report into Russian doping, the IOC on Wednesday extended the provisional sanctions imposed on the country over allegations of systematic c...

WINDSOR, Ont. - The warm, soupy air hits you before you even see the pool. Something seems amiss at the normally chilly WFCU Centre, the arena that is home to the Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor...

OTTAWA - The length of time it takes to process spousal sponsorship applications for immigrants is dropping to months from years under a multimillion-dollar revamp of a key, the federal government sai...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers posted fewer jobs in October than the previous month, but job openings are still at a mostly healthy level that points to steady hiring ahead. Job openings slipped 1.8 per ...

DETROIT - Prosecutors dropped murder charges Wednesday against a man in the killing of a Detroit college police officer who was shot in the head while on duty, but did not elaborate on why they no lon...