Category Archives: Canadian Press

BURNABY, B.C. - The last time Pierre Lemaitre put on his RCMP uniform with pride, it was Oct. 14, 2007, the day he responded to a call about a fatal police confrontation at Vancouver’s airport, ...

TORONTO - Douglas Vandor expects to be busy at this summer’s Pan American Games. The two-time Olympic rower from Dewittville, Que., has been named Canada’s chef de mission at this summer&#...

OTTAWA - Former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister Yves-Francois Blanchet announced Monday he will run for the vacant Bloc Quebecois leadership. Speaking in the foyer of the House of Common, Blanchet sa...

TORONTO - The union representing workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., is promising “one hell of a fight” after the automaker announced it would close the location ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The activities of police officers at the Richard Oland murder scene will be under close scrutiny as his son’s retrial moves into its second week, resuming Tuesday. Dennis Olan...

YARMOUTH, N.S. - As residents of a small Nova Scotia town mourn a little girl who was run over by a float in the annual Christmas parade, questions are being raised about safety measures along the par...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An Ohio man charged with killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in Virginia plans to argue that he believed he was acting in self-defence when he drove his car into a ...

NEW DELHI - A rights group that works to protect tribal people has urged Indian authorities to abandon efforts to recover the body of an American who was killed by inhabitants of an island where outsi...

MUMBAI, India - As Mumbai marked the 10th anniversary of attacks that killed 166 in India’s financial capital on Monday, the United States made a new reward offer for information on the 2008 sie...

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May made a blunt appeal to skeptical lawmakers on Monday to back her divorce deal with the European Union: It isn’t perfect, but it’s all there is, and the ...