Category Archives: Canadian Press

Toronto city council voted Monday to mount a legal challenge against Ontario’s decision to slash the size of the city’s council. The legislation - known as Bill 5 - was passed last week an...

ESCUMINAC, N.B. - Seasonal workers in certain areas of the country will get up to five more weeks of employment insurance benefits under a $189 million pilot project announced Monday by Ottawa. Jean-Y...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Comedian Andy Gross stirred outrage at Indiana’s Purdue University, which says the Los Angeles-based performer’s act during a student orientation was inappropriate. ...

THACKERVILLE, Okla. - In a story Aug. 18 about fans injured at a Backstreet Boys concert in Oklahoma, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the city in the dateline. The city is Thackerville, no...

NEW YORK - The Eagles’ greatest hits album has moonwalked past Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” to become history’s bestselling album of all-time. The Recording Industry Asso...

HAMDEN, Conn. - State police in Connecticut usually pull over cars for driving too fast. But on Sunday, troopers stopped and ticketed 10 cars for going too slow. Police received several calls from ang...

LEWISVILLE, Texas - Police in Texas say a man fatally stabbed his 16-month-old son and was shot in the leg by a neighbour who tried to stop the attack. The stabbing was reported Sunday afternoon in th...

BARCELONA, Spain - A man pleaded to be let into a locked police station in Barcelona before dawn Monday, then lunged with a knife at officers inside. Police shot him dead and the attack is being inves...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The jury in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has finished its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Jurors deliberated until...

NEW YORK - Allegations that disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick engaged in sex with adult seminarians have inflamed a long-running debate about the presence of gay men in the Roman Catholic pries...