Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Monthly visits to Montreal’s four, supervised drug-injection facilities have more than doubled since they opened last summer and crime rates have not increased in the neighbourhoods t...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba law that forbade members of the legislature from switching party caucuses - an action commonly called floor-crossing - did not violate the Charter of Rights, a Court of QueenR...

TORONTO - Mark Casse will have three real shots at earning a second career Queen’s Plate win. Casse, Canada’s top trainer the last seven years and 10 times overall, will send Plate Trial w...

MOSCOW - Senegal midfielder Mbaye Niang saw the signal from the referee to re-enter following treatment for an injury and jogged along the centre line. Then Niang noticed Poland’s Grzegorz Krych...

MONTREAL - A 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with an incident in May when members of a nationalist, far-right group stormed the Montreal newsroom of Vice Quebec, police said Tuesday. Montre...

Widely used pesticides blamed for decimating honeybee and other pollinator populations have found their way into wild turkeys in Ontario, according to a new study from Canadian researchers. Scientists...

NEW YORK - Country music icon Willie Nelson has extended an offer to meet President Donald Trump at one of the detention centres at the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand what’s happening, ...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling on the federal government to place severe restrictions on the contents and advertising of sugary alcoholic drinks. A report tabled today recommends tha...

OTTAWA - Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan says national sporting organizations will lose their federal funding if they don’t immediately disclose to her office any allegations of abuse or harassmen...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s law banning schools from telling parents when their children join a gay-straight alliance faces its first legal challenge. A Court of Queen’s Bench judge in Medicine H...