Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - An internal defence study that dismissed any plan to buy “interim” fighter jets because of “significant additional costs,” has been pulled off the National Defence web...

WINNIPEG - Five deaths this year at the Winnipeg Remand Centre are a sharp increase from previous years and internal reviews on two deaths have already been completed, documents obtained by The Canadi...

WASHINGTON - The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a last-ditch appeal to President ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Crews discovered the remains of more people as they searched the rubble of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses near the Great Smoky Mountains, bringing the deat...

TORONTO - Some big free-agent dominoes could fall at the upcoming baseball winter meetings near Washington. Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said Thursday he expects teams and agents will soon be...

WASHINGTON - With the nomination of retired general James (Mad Dog) Mattis as his defence secretary Thursday, Donald Trump has now named about half his cabinet. This allows some tea-leaf-reading about...

TORONTO - The agency charged with overseeing Ontario’s physicians issued a scathing reprimand to a former family doctor who it says lured a patient into his office after hours “under the p...

OTTAWA - A special all-party Commons committee is recommending a new proportional voting system, along with a national referendum to gauge public support for changing the way Canadians vote. Some fact...

MONTREAL - The decision by international food giant Mondelez to close a cookie and cracker factory in Montreal by 2017 is final, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. As a result, 454 jobs will be elim...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 1 --- COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PROPORTIONAL VOTING SYSTEM: A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new proportio...