Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch hasn’t thought through her controversial position on screening immigrants for “anti-Canadian values,” former Tory im...

TORONTO - A former commissioner of Canada’s broadcast regulator has lost his bid for reinstatement pending a court fight over his firing. In a decision Friday, Federal Court Judge Anne Mactavish...

VICTORIA - An RCMP officer has been charged with driving without due care and attention a year after a five-year-old boy was killed at a Penticton, B.C., intersection. The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch...

OTTAWA - It was a week of semantic satiation in Ottawa, with politicos parsing “anti-Canadian values” so many times that the phrase seemed to become almost meaningless. Conservative leader...

OTTAWA - A new federal government study projects that Canada would generate more than $4 billion in long-term GDP gains if it joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership - but stands to take a $5 billion-plus...

WINNIPEG - Matt Nichols will have a new receiver to pass to in Saturday’s game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders as slotback Ryan Smith comes off the six-game injured list in time to play his...

QUEBEC - There was a big ovation when Ryder Hesjedal was introduced before the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec on Friday and more at the end, even if the Victoria native finished 20th in the gruelling o...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin’s attorney general on Friday appealed the overturned conviction of a man accused of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the popular Netflix series R...

HALIFAX - For the rest of this month, Peter Coade will be setting a world record every day. The 74-year-old Halifax-based weatherman has announced he plans to retire Sept. 30, more than three years af...

FRESNO, Calif. - A U.S. lawmaker accused Yosemite National Park of breaking federal law by adding 400 acres for a wildlife preserve without clearing it through Congress, but federal park officials sai...