Category Archives: Canadian Press

NAPLES, Fla. - Kim McGuire, who played the character known as “Hatchet-Face” in the John Waters film “Cry-Baby,” has died. She was 60. Her husband, Gene Piotrowsky, confirmed h...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A black boy. A white Ohio police officer. A pellet gun that looked like a real weapon. And a deadly shooting. In a killing with unavoidable echoes of the Tamir Rice case out of Clevel...

A chronology for convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach Graham James, who was granted full parole Thursday: 1983-84: Named head scout of the Western Hockey League’s Winnipeg Warri...

EDMONTON - An Alberta judge has found Travis Vader guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Lyle and Marie McCann, two seniors who disappeared more than six years ago. Justice Denny Thomas tol...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s hot real estate market has boosted the province’s bottom line, freeing cash for a housing program and allowing the government to cancel a planned hike in medi...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr was briefed on many of the concerns and questions about medical marijuana use in a presentation earlier this year, including fears that paying for injured ...

EDMONTON - A judge has found Travis Vader guilty of killing two Alberta seniors. Lyle and Marie McCann vanished six years ago after they headed out on a camping trip. Travis Vader had been charged wit...

BERLIN - Dozens of police officers intervened as groups of far-right Germans and young asylum seekers clashed in an eastern German town that has previously seen racist incidents, officials said Thursd...

WASHINGTON - Creating the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead zones and unsustainable fishing practices, President Bara...

MANILA, Philippines - A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members...