Category Archives: The Canadian Press

QUBEC - The Quebec government announced Thursday that it's pushing back its greenhouse gas reduction target by five years to protect the economy and jobs, as environmental groups warned that the delay...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district pleaded guilty Thursday, and admitted to falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and illegally posse...

Chris Johnston is getting that itch again. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont., is back on the water for the first time in months. This week, the professional angler put his new Ranger 520R boat through i...

VANCOUVER - A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray that got underway in Vancouver this week has been adjourned because a lawyer used a strong obscenity to describe someone i...

OTTAWA - The mother of a Canadian man detained in Syria says he risks going from "one legal black hole into another" as prisoners in the strife-torn country are transferred to Iraq. Sally Lane has bee...

CANMORE - Seven of eight athletes on Canada's biathlon team will make their Olympic debuts at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. The athletes announced Thursday by Biathlon Canada will race Feb. 8-21 at ...

TORONTO - Olympic medallists liot Grondin and Meryeta O'Dine headline Canada's snowboard cross team for the Milan Cortina Games. Canada Snowboard and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the 13 sn...

LA LOCHE - A high school in northern Saskatchewan where a deadly shooting took place was open for the first time in a decade on the anniversary of the tragedy. Dene High School in La Loche, about 600 ...

QUBEC - The Coalition Avenir Qubec will choose Premier Franois Legault's successor on April 12. The party says the leadership race starts today and candidates have until Feb. 21 to submit their applic...

BEIJING - Gabrielle Daleman is in the hunt for a medal at the Four Continents Championships. The two-time Olympic figure skater from Newmarket, Ont., landed three triple jumps to score 67.69 points in...