Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Organizers at Bill Clinton’s final, glittery gathering of his family’s philanthropic organization seem determined to keep his wife’s presidential prospects off the agenda....

DETROIT - Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. will soon open an office in Detroit. Uber’s vice-president of global vehicle programs, Sherif Marakby, announced the facility at an engineer...

TORONTO - Injury forced goalkeeper Clint Irwin out of the Toronto FC lineup. The fine play of backup Alex Bono has extended that absence. Both are healthy now and coach Greg Vanney has a decision to m...

BAY DE VERDE, N.L. - Parish secretary Diane Sparkes just wants someone to catch the God-forsaken ace. “Never again,” Sparkes said Monday of her parish’s Chase the Ace fundraiser. ...

OTTAWA - It is in Canada’s interest to play a leadership role in United Nations peacekeeping, former military commander Romeo Dallaire said Monday even as he delivered a pointed critique of how ...

CALGARY - Police say they have arrested a man who climbed a 26-storey crane at a downtown Calgary construction site and occupied its cab for most of the morning. The incident, which began just before ...

CALGARY - Former Calgary police chief and politician Rick Hanson is back in the public eye as the head of the city’s exploration committee studying a possible bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. H...

LONDON - A biography of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt has been named science book of the year. Andrea Wulf’s “The Invention of Nature” was awarded the 25,000-...

OTTAWA - A First Nations advocacy group has asked the Canadian Human Rights Commission to begin a Federal Court process that could lead to contempt proceedings against the Liberal government for its t...

OTTAWA - Quebec will be penalized for violating Canadian health care law after its doctors charged patients fees for services covered by the public system, Health Minister Jane Philpott recently told ...