Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 22 --- PROVINCES CHALLENGE FEDS’ TAX REFORM: Provincial pressure is intensifying against the Trudeau government’s controversial tax-reform p...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian government will place Ukraine on a list of countries to which it will permit certain weapons exports. Trudeau made the comments after a meetin...

MONTREAL - Ride-hailing company Uber will be allowed to operate legally for another year in Quebec under more strict rules, Transport Minister Laurent Lessard said. Lessard said Friday he’ll ext...

VANCOUVER - A defence lawyer says the extradition of two British Columbia residents to India to face murder charges was challenged in court because the federal justice minister’s decision to sur...

WASHINGTON - Federal investigators are examining Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s recent use of costly charter flights on the taxpayers’ dime for official business. The HHS ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee sheriff’s office is asking people not to call the agency about a “body” trapped under a closed, blood-stained garage door. That’s because the s...

VANCOUVER - Carl Robinson was involved in a number of tight races at both the top and bottom of the standings during his playing career in England. The head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps is now sha...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Responding to France’s sports minister raising security risks at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, the IOC has tried to calm concern about the Pyeongchang Games in Februa...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A homeless woman who was viciously attacked and set on fire says it will take time for her to forgive her attacker after he was handed a 16-year prison sentence Friday. Leslie B...

WALTON, Ont. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to show off his farming skills Friday at the International Plowing Match in southwestern Ontario. The prime minister drove a tractor a short distance...