Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - A special prosecutor has urged British Columbia’s Court of Appeal to overturn the acquittal of a polygamous leader who was accused of taking a 15-year-old girl across the border for ...

DALLAS - When Barry Trotz left the Washington Capitals fresh off winning the Stanley Cup, the New York Islanders couldn’t move fast enough to talk to him. Minutes after word circulated that Trot...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is holding consultations over the summer about an updated Canadian definition of beer - what can go in it, sugar content - and new labelling rules for brew...

Halifax police fear carnage on a busy city highway because of the slowest-moving of creatures: turtles. A snapping turtle was euthanized Thursday after being hit on a roadway separating a busy shoppin...

Toronto’s unabashedly in-your-face celebration of everything LGBTQ is set to take place on Sunday against a backdrop of nasty recriminations involving the community, police and black citizens, a...

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University’s interim president apologized Thursday for an email remark about one of the gymnasts sexually abused by ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar, the latest sign...

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - A New Jersey university is selling its music college to a Chinese company. Lawrence-based Rider University had announced in February that it had a non-binding, $40 million deal i...

OTTAWA - Almost 4,000 people have chosen medical assistance to end their lives since the practice became legal in Canada two years ago. That includes 1,525 in the last six months of 2017 - a 29 per ce...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s crane operators are being ordered back to work. A labour tribunal hearing ruled Thursday evening in favour of an order sought by the province’s construction commission,...

OTTAWA - Legislation that will make it easy to tear up the criminal records of Canadians convicted of homosexual acts is now law. Bill C-66 allows Canadians, or family members of Canadians who have di...