Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 8 JOHN GLENN DEAD AT 95: American astronaut John Glenn is dead at age 95. Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, which made him an all-...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says it’s “unacceptable” that an RCMP employee fabricated a response to an access-to-information request. Goodale says the individual in...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. - A hunter who says he was falsely accused online of killing a New Jersey black bear that walked upright on its hind legs and became an internet celebrity has sued six social media po...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are moving on their promise to build a political firewall around Statistics Canada, but the fine print of the proposed legislative changes would maintain the government&#...

TORONTO - Police in Toronto say they’ve made their first confirmed seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil. They said Wednesday in a release that analysis of recently seized substances purported ...

OTTAWA - The interim Bloc Quebecois leader says he isn’t interested in the job on a permanent basis. Rheal Fortin, who has headed the party since last year’s federal election, says his dec...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting down with premiers to finalize a long-awaited national plan on climate change, but once those discussions wrap up, they will move right into a heated ...

TORONTO - In 1996 while Greg Vanney was a student-athlete at UCLA, he took a class that required him to start a business. He chose to form a soccer team - the Arizona Futbol Club. When Vanney went hom...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - James van Riemsdyk went to the Stanley Cup final with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010, but he also considers his appearance with the United States at the 2014 Olympics special ...

OTTAWA - Mounties won’t be wearing tiny video cameras - at least for now. The RCMP says it is postponing the deployment of body-worn cameras after testing revealed technical problems, including ...