Category Archives: Canadian Press

LANGLEY, B.C. - The Law Society of British Columbia is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada as it maintains its stance against accrediting graduates of a proposed law school at a Christian universit...

EDMONTON - The only two female candidates in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership contest quit the race Tuesday. One of them, Sandra Jansen, said she had been harassed and intimidated and a...

SASKATOON - A chief says it’s about time for indigenous leaders to take charge of the youth suicide crisis in northern Saskatchewan instead of going to funerals. Ron Michel, grand chief of the P...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 8 ___ U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN EXPOSED FRACTURES: And the prize is: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentles...

MONTREAL - A Montreal woman with ties to an international feminist group was arrested Tuesday after staging a topless protest inside a New York City polling station being used for the U.S. presidentia...

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing legislation that would allow people who don’t identify as either male or female to put a third gender marker such as an X on government documents. “With thi...

OTTAWA - The outcome of a Prince Edward Island plebiscite on electoral reform is giving hope to those who are pushing Canada to adopt a proportional voting system. But the fact that so few Islanders b...

LOS ANGELES - A gay YouTube personality has pleaded guilty to felony vandalism in an incident in which he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Of...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey said Tuesday that the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces leading an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa should not enter the city itself but merely help encircle i...

DETROIT - Officials say the cost of building the Detroit Red Wings’ new arena has jumped by $105 million to nearly $733 million. The city’s Downtown Development Authority said the revised ...