Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - Plans for a French-language election debate have been scrapped in New Brunswick, with the Liberals and Tories each blaming the other - and even Quebec’s premier expressing disappoi...

OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency obtained a warrant to monitor accused extremist recruiter Awso Peshdary based on misleading information, says a lawyer for the Ottawa man. The Canadian Security Inte...

OMRO, Wis. - A Wisconsin motorist was having car trouble when he pulled over to find a slithering surprise. Chris Nguyen opened the hood of his mother’s SUV. Inside, he found a 4-foot-long ball ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Police filed charges Friday against three people accused of helping tear down a century-old Confederate statue during a protest this week at North Carolina’s flagship university....

Duron Carter’s next CFL stop will be Toronto. A source told The Canadian Press on Friday night the free-agent receiver will be signing with the Toronto Argonauts. Carter was released Aug. 11 by ...

NEW YORK - One of the nation’s most respected medical experts, who led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, entered a courtroom on Friday in handcuffs, arrested on sexual-harassm...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A federal judge has dismissed a second defendant from a $1 billion racketeering lawsuit that the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline filed against environmental groups, leavin...

MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Quebec is standing firm on a promise to raise the minimum age for cannabis consumption in the province to 21. Recreational marijuana use is set to become the law of the...

NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin’s funeral next week. Franklin’s rep, Gwendo...

TORONTO - Prior to meeting reporters after practice Friday, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney took time out to mingle with pint-sized players attending a summer camp at the MLS team’s training ground...