Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have a clean bill of health and it couldn’t have come at a better time. As the race for post-season play in Major League Soccer heats up, four previously injured p...

CALGARY - Protests over trees usually happen when they’re being cut down, but some Calgary residents are upset the city has planted saplings in a park across from their homes. Ian Burgess said s...

NEWMARKET, Ont. - Police say a 41-year-old man - who allegedly claimed to be a diplomat from the United Kingdom as part of an elaborate fraud - is facing charges after an Ontario woman lost $30,000 in...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 9 --- JOBS NUMBERS REBOUNDED SOMEWHAT IN AUGUST: The latest numbers from Statistics Canada show the economy created 26-thousand, 200 net new jobs in Aug...

RIO DE JANEIRO - With the Rio Paralympics set to begin Wednesday, organizers say ticket sales have jumped from around 200,000 to 1.6 million, and a spirit of optimism now pervades the cash-strapped ev...

OTTAWA - The federal government must use its constitutional powers to give Quebec’s maple syrup producers the right to sell their products as they see fit, Conservative leadership candidate Maxi...

OTTAWA - Although the Liberal government withdrew Canada’s CF-18s from Iraq and Syria in the spring, two Aurora surveillance planes and a Polaris refuelling aircraft have continued to participat...

OTTAWA - When Braden Holtby last represented Canada on the international stage it was almost a decade ago and he barely played. The 26-year-old from Lloydminster, Sask., has been slowly inching upward...

CALGARY - Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner, Meaghan Mikkelson and Hayley Wickenheiser are among the top 44 players invited to attend the Canadian women’s hockey team camp starting Sunday in ...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman accused of hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker has had an unrelated charge against her stayed. Andrea Giesbrecht’s lawyer, Matthew Gould, says the C...