Category Archives: Canadian Press

ESTEVAN, Sask. - A Saskatchewan couple has been sentenced after admitting to their roles in a human smuggling operation involving a group of Nigerian asylum-seekers. In a ruling brought down on Monday...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is off to Toronto this week in an effort to attract more cybersecurity jobs to his province. Gallant will meet with officials of Siemens, who are look...

VANCOUVER - Here are some key dates in the history of the Trans Mountain pipeline and Kinder Morgan Canada’s efforts to expand its capacity: October 1953: The Trans Mountain pipeline begins ship...

TORONTO - Kenneth Heiner-Moller makes his home debut as Canadian women’s soccer coach on June 10 against Olympic champion Germany. And the 47-year-old Dane is bringing his big guns to Hamilton&#...

TORONTO - Rates of sexually transmitted infections are continuing to rise across Canada, say public health experts, who point to a number of possible reasons for the uptick in cases of gonorrhea, chla...

BERLIN - Former German tennis star Boris Becker and his wife Lilly have separated. The German news agency dpa reported Tuesday that a Berlin lawyer for the two confirmed the breakup of three-time Wimb...

MOSCOW - Fencing champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov was elected president of the Russian Olympic Committee on Tuesday after its previous leader stepped down following years of doping scandals. Pozdyakov, w...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda’s government on Tuesday defended its $39 million sponsorship deal with the Arsenal football club as some aid donors and rights activists raised an outcry. “Visit Rw...

CALGARY - Canada’s energy industry welcomed news Tuesday that the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline is more likely to be built, but expressed grave misgivings over Ottawa’s decision to buy...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Canada is failing to measure and accurately report the social and economic gaps between First Nations people on reserves and other Canadians, auditor general Michael Fergu...