Category Archives: Canadian Press

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician apologized Friday for saying a highway crash that left former MP Steven Fletcher a quadriplegic was a gift. “I obviously hurt Mr. Fletcher and I deeply regret th...

VICTORIA - A heckler interrupted Premier John Horgan’s news conference on protecting British Columbia’s wild salmon by shouting the province is allowing the aquaculture industry to continu...

WINNIPEG - A former student who was sexually exploited by a Winnipeg educational assistant told his perpetrator’s sentencing hearing that every step forward now feels like multiple steps back. S...

Nasty weather and the Canadian Football League have a long history together. Another chapter was written at the regular season opener that began on Thursday night but didn’t end until 1:17 a.m. ...

LOS ANGELES - Actress Naya Rivera’s marriage to husband Ryan Dorsey is over after nearly four years. A judge in Los Angeles finalized the pair’s divorce Thursday. Rivera and Dorsey will sh...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed entrepreneur, community volunteer and long-time political donor Colin Deacon as a senator for Nova Scotia. Deacon is perhaps best known as the foun...

CALGARY - The Canadian government is trying to reassure Japan and other trading partners that genetically modified wheat found in southern Alberta is limited to a few plants growing along a remote acc...

TORONTO - A murder trial in Toronto has heard that an aviation executive was very excited about a new business venture in the weeks before he died from a single gunshot wound to the head. The death of...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - An inmate overpowered two sheriff’s deputies while being transported to a Kansas City courthouse on Friday, resulting in a shooting that killed one deputy and critically woun...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Aziz Bouhaddouz, head in his hands and face buried in the turf, was probably unaware of the opposing players and coaches swarming all around him in jubilation. Some teammates ...