Category Archives: Canadian Press

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan’s premier says he knows Canadians do not support a national carbon tax so he’s started his own online petition. At a news conference on Thursday, Brad Wall also sa...

TORONTO - A Toronto senior who used his cane to attack a fellow long-term care home resident more than three years ago was found guilty late Thursday of second-degree murder in the woman’s death...

SECHELT, B.C. - The rescue of a British Columbia woman after her SUV plunged off the Sunshine Coast Highway near Sechelt and landed in a swollen creek was “miraculous,” RCMP said Thursday....

WINNIPEG - After a tough year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer, a Winnipeg woman is preparing for her wedding day. Lisa Carson-Walton is to walk down the aisle Friday with her fianc Chris Herie ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A mother who drowned her newborn son in a sink before leaving her home to write a university exam has avoided time behind bars, though a judge described her actions as “abhorren...

LIMA, Peru - A strong, shallow earthquake struck a sparsely populated area in Peru’s southern Andes near Lake Titicaca on Thursday, toppling some adobe houses but apparently causing no casualtie...

Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Joe McKnight has been shot to death following an argument at an intersection with another motorist. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said the incident invo...

BRANDON, Man. - It’s starting to become a little crowded at the top of the Canada Cup men’s standings. Reid Carruthers, 2014 Olympic champion Brad Jacobs, and Brad Gushue’s team from...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration declared its support Thursday for requiring women to register for the military draft, a symbolic but significant shift that reflects the U.S. military’s evo...

OTTAWA - A comprehensive measure of Canada’s national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report...