Category Archives: Canadian Press

Toronto’s deputy mayor is apologizing for comments he made about the city’s outgoing chief planner after backlash from critics who called his words sexist. Denzil Minnan-Wong told the Toro...

FREDERICTON - It’s not a sale on corn or blueberries advertised on the grocery store road sign in St. Stephen, N.B. Instead, spelled out in bright, bold letters, is the notice “hiring in a...

Regina Police say they aren’t pursuing any criminal investigations following reports that Roughriders receiver Duron Carter was spit on and Saskatchewan’s mascot Gainer the Gopher was roug...

FALMOUTH, N.S. - An official with the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources says the area near a home in Falmouth that was damaged after a large hole appeared underneath it, is already considere...

FALMOUTH, N.S. - People living near a Nova Scotia home being swallowed by a large sinkhole say they are feeling jittery as they await answers on why the ground opened up - and whether other houses mig...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg high school hopes that teaching its students about the Holocaust will help put a stop to a recent spate of anti-Semitic bullying. Ted Fransen, superintendent with the Pembina Tra...

GERALDTON, Ont. - The mother of Chanie Wenjack, the 12-year-old boy who died while trying to escape an Ontario residential school in 1966, has died. The Nishnawbe Aski Nation says Agnes Wenjack, 89, d...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says it was clear his party’s candidate in an upcoming byelection had no choice but to step down. Eric Tetrault withdrew from the race Wednesday nigh...

ST. ANDREWS, Man. - RCMP say a plane that crashed near a small airport north of Winnipeg, killing the pilot, had been taken without the owner’s consent. Police say the 29-year-old man from Thund...

MONTREAL - Less than a week after being rebuffed by a girl he’d asked out, the man on trial in her slaying returned to a Montreal big box store and fatally stabbed her 14 times in April 2016, th...