Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...

TORONTO - Canadian international defender Kadeisha Buchanan, who led West Virginia to the NCAA women’s soccer tournament final, has been named the TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Year. A nativ...

ROME - Italy’s latest government was formed and rapidly sworn in Monday, a centre-left coalition headed by new Premier Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the just-ended one that...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Cherokee Nation’s attorney general legalized gay marriage for the country’s second-largest Native American tribe, saying its same-sex marriage ban violates a tribal req...

MADISON, Wis. - The Latest on the presidential recount (all times local): 6:55 p.m. Republican President-elect Donald Trump is celebrating picking up more votes in Wisconsin in its recount. The billio...

EDMONTON - This cat may have used up more than one of its nine lives. A Canadian National Railway conductor was checking the engines on his train early Sunday in Wainwright, Alta., when he heard a pat...

TORONTO - An Ontario police officer who claimed he “murdered” two people in separate encounters was cleared of any wrongdoing on Monday, after the province’s police watchdog found he...

OTTAWA - The federal government is withdrawing certain proposed changes to the Bank Act because of opposition from Quebec. Finance Minister Bill Morneau confirmed Monday that provisions in Bill C-29 t...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Dec. 12 FEDS TO MAKE IT EASIER TO ESTABLISH SAFE INJECTION SITES: The federal government is making it easier to set up supervised drug injection sites in Cana...

TORONTO - Derek Shelton was named quality control coach for the Blue Jays on Tuesday, rounding out Toronto’s coaching staff for 2017 The 46-year-old Shelton spent seven seasons as the hitting co...