Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - A private clinic’s legal crusade to expand the role of the free market in Canada’s public health-care system puts profit over patients and would lead to greater hardship for mo...

EDMONTON - A judge is expected to deliver a verdict today in the first-degree murder trial of Travis Vader. Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, an Alberta couple ...

EDMONTON - A judge is to release his verdict today for a man accused in the deaths of two Alberta seniors. Lyle and Marie McCann vanished six years ago after they headed out on a camping trip. Travis ...

EDMONTON - Bret McCann hopes a verdict Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing his parents and hiding their bodies will end a six-year-long nightmare for his family. Travis Vader has pleaded...

OTTAWA - A new federal survey suggests the percentage of students who smoke tobacco fell to about three per cent in 2014-15 from four per cent a year earlier. The Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and...

OTTAWA - The Defence Department’s procurement chief says he is having a hard time finding experienced personnel as he hires hundreds of new employees to help untangle the snarled military purcha...

TORONTO - Marco Estrada’s words were confident and optimistic, but the soft tone of the Toronto right-hander’s voice and glum look on his face told a different story as he tried to explain...

LOS ANGELES - The protesters who ambushed Ryan Lochte on “Dancing with the Stars” are defending their actions after being released from jail. Sam Satoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi were arrested...

TORONTO - Ben Cherington was hired as the Toronto Blue Jays new vice-president of baseball operations on Wednesday. Cherington spent most of his career with the Boston Red Sox organization. He and Jed...

HALIFAX - A new Nova Scotia Appeal Court ruling raises fresh questions about the police use of so-called “Mr. Big” tactics, dismissing a Crown appeal in the case of a woman acquitted of be...