Category Archives: Canadian Press

BRIDGETON, N.J. - Federal prosecutors have determined that they won’t file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a man who defied orders by stepping out of a car during a traffic sto...

MONTREAL - A jury has convicted Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooter of second-degree murder in the death of a lighting technician. The jurors also convicted Richard Henry Bain of three counts o...

LONG POND, Pa. - Will Power can’t seem to do any wrong, which means IndyCar has another serious points race looming. Power continued his late-season surge on Monday, holding pole-sitter Mikhail ...

OTTAWA - Even without a Chinese-Canadian free trade deal, the federal government should be deepening its business relationship with the rapidly expanding Asian economy on multiple fronts, says a globa...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 22 ___ CANADA BASKING IN OLYMPIC ACHIEVEMENTS: The chef de mission of the Canadian Olympic team believes there was a Pan Am effect at work. Curt Harnett ...

THE PAS, Man. - A forest products company that is the largest employer in The Pas in northern Manitoba says it will shut down in December. Tolko Industries says 332 workers have been notified that the...

OTTAWA - Many mosques and Islamic schools in Canada are placing young people at risk by espousing - or at least not condemning - extremist teachings, a new study says. Co-authors Thomas Quiggin, a for...

MONTREAL - A slander trial is set to begin next month pitting a fiercely secular, feminist author against a private, Muslim school in Montreal she likened to militant Islamic training camps in Afghani...

OTTAWA - The controversy surrounding Jane Philpott’s travel expenses grew Monday as evidence surfaced that the federal Liberal health minister billed taxpayers $520 for access to Air Canada̵...

Ricky Ray has overcome yet another injury, and the Toronto Argonauts’ veteran quarterback is wondering how the demands of football will impact his life long after he’s thrown his final pas...