Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - A permanent Canadian resident currently stranded in Moscow says she has had her status revoked due to a clerical error and accuses the government of refusing to listen to her efforts to get ...

OTTAWA - The national broadcast regulator and the country’s four biggest television service providers are in for an earful this week over the rollout earlier this year of so-called skinny-basic ...

OTTAWA - Scores of suffering Canadians who’ve been excluded from the federal government’s restrictive eligibility criteria for medical assistance in dying are lining up to join a constitut...

Friends say they’re struggling to come to terms with the death of a Quebec singer and former amateur hockey player who died in a helicopter crash Sunday. Roberto Bissonnette was killed along wit...

CALGARY - The China Clipper sailed to the rescue of more than one professional sports team - as a bruising football fullback, a tenacious front-office manager in the CFL and part-owner of his home-tow...

Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- PM TRUDEAU HONOURS WAR DEAD IN HONG KONG Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid homage Tuesday to Canadian soldiers who died after fighting to d...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose told CTV that she doesn’t support Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen new immigrants for “anti-Canadian values.” Leitch, a Conservative...

MONTREAL - In the basement of a public housing complex on the outskirts of downtown Montreal is a large walk-in freezer used solely to kill bed bugs. The freezer is a local solution to a problem that ...

OTTAWA - When he opened a medical marijuana shop in Kingston earlier this year, Trevor Hands had little idea who his customers would be, how much they would buy or how his business would grow simply t...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal is hearing arguments on whether to overturn a controversial acquittal of an Ontario trucker charged with killing an indigenous woman. Last year, a jury found Bra...