Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - An International Olympic Committee official once said the commute from Vancouver to Whistler, B.C., for the 2010 Winter Games was “too far.” Now, the IOC says it’s OK for C...

VANCOUVER - A quarter of people living in long-term care homes in British Columbia are receiving antipsychotic medication without a supporting diagnosis even though they have lower rates of psychiatri...

OTTAWA - Rural and suburban postal workers across Canada celebrated Thursday after an arbitrator ordered Canada Post to pay them more - much more - as part of a long-awaited pay equity decision. For a...

PHOENIX - Eight people, including four immigrants in the U.S. illegally, were killed in a head-on crash on an Arizona highway, authorities said Thursday. The crash occurred late Wednesday in a rural p...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An attorney for two Native American brothers pulled from a Colorado State University tour earlier this year has demanded the school make policy changes, saying Thursday that campus...

Athletes, investigators, anti-doping officials and national sport committees all knew that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s reinstatement from a doping scandal suspension was likely coming. It d...

TORONTO - Canada’s top court has paved the way for a pair of separate civil lawsuits to proceed by affirming earlier rulings that two men alleging police assaulted them were justified in waiting...

TORONTO - Months after cancelling hundreds of renewable energy contracts, the Ontario government introduced legislation Thursday to scrap a law that aimed to bolster the province’s green energy ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding theatre troupe has cast its first women after nearly two centuries of all-male productions. The group says six women have been chosen to per...

Juwan Brescacin is living proof of just how valuable depth is in the CFL. The Calgary Stampeders (10-2) continue to roll along this season despite the loss of stalwart receivers Eric Rogers (knee), Ka...