Category Archives: The Canadian Press

'Grieving together': 3 players on Alberta junior hockey team dead in vehicle crash
STAVELY - Three players on an Alberta junior hockey team killed in a crash while heading to practice are being remembered as exceptional young men who had a spark in their eyes for the sport. The Sout...
Feb 02, 2026

Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda an...
Feb 02, 2026
Appeals court overturns former UCLA gynecologist's sex abuse conviction
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former campus gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on sex abuse charges. James Heaps was se...
Feb 02, 2026

Global Affairs confirms a Canadian has died in Japan
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says the department is aware of the death of a Canadian citizen in Japan. Japanese media have identified the victim as 39-year-old Ashley Kay Bernice. Reports say she di...
Feb 02, 2026

Former minister Baird says he wasn't consulted about Epstein's invite to 2014 seminar
OTTAWA - The office of former foreign affairs minister John Baird said Monday neither he nor the Canadian government were consulted on a 2014 seminar invitation list that included convicted sex offend...
Feb 02, 2026

Rizqy says partisan use of legislature funds led to chief of staff firing
QUBEC - Marwah Rizqy is breaking her silence about what prompted her to fire her chief of staff, leading to her expulsion from the Quebec Liberal party caucus last year. In a statement of defence in a...
Feb 02, 2026

Former PM Harper says he did not sign Alberta separation petition
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper said he has not signed a petition seeking to force a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada. Harper made the comment while speaking alongside former prime m...
Feb 02, 2026

Three foreign nationals arrested by extortion patrol are charged in B.C. shooting
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say three men arrested on Sunday by officers on an anti-extortion patrol are all foreign nationals and have been charged after bullets were fired at a home. Harjot Sin...
Feb 02, 2026

Virginia man in ‘au pair affair’ case convicted of murdering wife and another man in elaborate ruse
A Virginia man having an affair with the family's Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy. Brendan Ban...
Feb 02, 2026

Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi N...
Feb 02, 2026