Category Archives: Canadian Press

VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says he has confidence in legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas even though he wishes the events of the last week at British Columbia’s legislature had unfolded differ...

TORONTO - It was the middle of the night in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Phil Scrubb had arrived home from a game. It’d been a good night for the former Carleton Ravens star guard - 16 points and...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Austria’s Christine Scheyer won the first women’s downhill training run at the Lake Louise World Cup stop on Tuesday. Scheyer, who has one career World Cup podium appe...

CALGARY - Hundreds of protesters chanting “Build that pipe now” jammed a downtown Calgary street for the second time in five days on Tuesday, this time to mark a speech by federal Finance ...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man who spent 23 years in prison for first-degree murder had his conviction quashed by the province’s Court of Appeal Tuesday. A panel of three judges ruled that Frank Ostr...

OTTAWA - The federal government finds itself being asked to consider extra employment insurance benefits to help cushion the blow for workers at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., that GM plans...

OTTAWA - A tax credit Ottawa is promising to encourage more Canadians to pay for online news will roughly cover two months of a digital subscription fee. The tax credit is one of three components of a...

OTTAWA - Prison needle-exchange programs that guards say will endanger their health and safety could get another look with an eye to changes, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale signalled Tuesday. Th...

GLASGOW, Scotland - Canada scored four tries and held off a late charge to defeat Scotland 28-25 in women’s rugby play Tuesday. The victory was the third in four tour matches for coach Sandro Fi...

KANSSA CITY, Mo. - Three Canadians have made the list of semifinalists for the 2018 MAC Hermann Trophy, awarded annually to the top men’s and women’s U.S. college soccer players. North Van...