Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Alice Wong says she was riding a bus back from Parliament Hill when she started to feel intimidated by a fellow passenger. “(He) stopped and hovered over me, began to wa...

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing new legislation to ensure students who join gay-straight alliances in school are not outed without their permission. Education Minister David Eggen says the new law wil...

OTTAWA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Canada this weekend for what his agency had hoped would be a chance to publicly applaud Canada’s decision to take in a highe...

TORONTO - There are several advantages to an Ontario woman’s plan to sue Harvey Weinstein over alleged sexual assaults, note legal experts who say a civil court can offer better prospects for a ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Nov. 2 --- U.S. PROCUREMENT PROPOSAL WOULD GUT SECTION OF NAFTA: A Canadian diplomat says a Trump administration proposal to limit access to American procur...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Police in North Carolina have captured an escaped inmate after they found him drinking a Gatorade while sitting outside a doctor’s office. Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan to...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has ba...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska investigators say no evidence of animal cruelty was found after an animal rights group complained about a kennel operated by four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey, who w...

TORONTO - Linebacker Bear Woods and running back/returner Chris Rainey go way back. They grew up in Florida, born a year apart. They’ve been college rivals (Rainey at Florida, Woods at Troy) and...

The Toronto Raptors’ game in Utah on Friday will have a distinctly international flair. With 14 players from outside the United States between the two teams, the game will feature the most inter...