Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONCTON, N.B. - No fewer than 14 candidates crowded the stage in Moncton for the second official debate of the federal Conservative leadership race where they discussed a broad menu of issues ranging ...

WINDSOR, Ont. - Canada captured its first medal of the FINA world short-course swimming championships Tuesday - then had its second medal unceremoniously snatched away. Taylor Ruck, a 16-year-old from...

TORONTO - Despite a franchise-best season, Toronto FC didn’t garner much attention in the end-of-season awards. Star striker Sebastian Giovinco, last year’s MVP, Newcomer of the Year and G...

VANCOUVER - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says chants of “Lock her up” at a rally protesting her plans for a carbon tax reflect the views of extreme groups of people who have migrated to b...

OTTAWA - Canada’s privacy watchdog intends to look into the Trudeau government’s new online survey on electoral reform after concerns have been raised about invasion of privacy. Canadians ...

MANDAN, N.D. - Some protesters who have been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline retreated to a nearby casino and area shelters overnight as a blizzard blew through, but many remained at a camp in sou...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A car crash has damaged one of the nation’s oldest churches. WPRI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2gA5Zsu) the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, sustained damage to ...

JACKSON, Ga. - With the execution Tuesday of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law, Georgia has put to death nine inmates this year - more than any other state. William Sallie’s time of d...

TAMPA, Fla. - Closing out two terms as a president at war, Barack Obama staunchly defended his counterterrorism strategy as one that rejected torture, held to American values and avoided large-scale t...

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The head of the charter airline whose plane crashed in the Andes last week was detained by Bolivian prosecutors for questioning Tuesday as authorities look into whether the trage...