Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A former Canadian Forces member who says a series of aggressive investigations into her sexual orientation hounded her out of the military in the late 1980s is leading a class action lawsuit...

OXON HILL, Md. - Jose Bautista has long been booed whenever he’s played in Baltimore. Now, the free agent slugger wants the Orioles to consider signing him, and the team isn’t having any p...

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week, another sign the U.S. job market remains healthy. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly claims for job...

MOSCOW - Even before Friday’s publication of a new report into alleged state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes, Russia and the World Anti-Doping Agency are bickering. WADA is upset because it...

LAC SAINT-FRANCOIS, Que. - RCMP have seized 127 kilograms of cocaine and made three arrests in a drug smuggling investigation in southwestern Quebec, the force announced Thursday. Investigators said t...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Signalling a potential radical change in the way Olympic host cities are chosen, IOC President Thomas Bach wants to revise the bidding process because it “produces too ma...

INDIANAPOLIS - A local union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter stood his ground Thursday, maintaining the president-elect gave false hope to hundreds of workers by inflating the number of j...

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s parliament speaker says an airstrike targeting the Islamic State-held town of Qaim near the Syrian border killed and wounded “dozens” of civilians, and that he is ho...

CHICAGO - A 61-year-old Canadian man who was arrested after a scuffle with an off-duty Chicago police officer is suing the officer. Terence Clarke of Baden, Ontario alleges in the excessive force laws...

ATHENS, Greece - A nationwide strike in Greece against spending cuts disrupted public transport, state-run schools, ferries and national rail services and left public hospitals running with emergency ...