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WINNIPEG - Stanley Bryant is staying put. The CFL's outstanding lineman last season signed a one-year extension with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday. The six-foot-five, 313-pound Bryant was slat...

The Alberta government says an announcement is coming Monday about its plan to offer relief as rising costs continue to push budgets to the limit.In a tweet on Wednesday evening, Affordability and Uti...

A new quadrennial has done little to improve the often perplexing elite curling scene. A sport that still clings to amateur roots despite a growing shift to professional status seems stunted by a lack...

MONTREAL - A man has been found dead near an unofficial border crossing south of Montreal that is used by thousands of asylum seekers each year to cross into Canada from the United States. Quebec prov...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Thursday said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to hold a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, the Kre...

VANCOUVER - Airline passengers leaving China, Hong Kong and Macau will have to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test when they enter Canada starting today. The Canadian government announced las...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a member of the Democratic leadership, announced Thursday that she will not run for a fifth term in 2024, opening up a seat in the key battleground...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) - Top-seeded Novak Djokovic has reached the quarterfinals of the Adelaide International where he will face Canadian Denis Shapovalov. Djokovic defeated Quentin Halys 7-6 (3) 7...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 ... What we are watchin...