Category Archives: Canadian Press

The Hockey Hall of Fame has added NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, pioneering black player Willie O’Ree and all-time winningest goaltender Martin Brodeur to its latest class. Since taking the job ...

TORONTO - An NHL trailblazer, the man that ushered in unprecedented growth and the best statistical goalie in the game’s history headline the Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2018. Willie O&...

RED DEER, Alta. - A McDonald’s restaurant in central Alberta is reaching out to an Indigenous man to tell him he’s welcome there after he was ordered to leave following a racist and profan...

REGINA - The head of the RCMP says she doesn’t think the force will get to 50 per cent gender equity. Commissioner Brenda Lucki said the fact that Mounties mainly police rural areas makes it dif...

OTTAWA - An independent review of the Immigration and Refugee Board says there are persistent and systemic problems with the organization that handles asylum claims and appeals, problems it says can&#...

SEATTLE - Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who ha...

LOS ANGELES - A Canadian real estate tycoon’s son who wrote a graphic novel that features gruesome killings was sentenced Tuesday in California to life in prison for the torture and mutilation o...

MADRID - Can dogs perform CPR? Probably not, but a video posted by police in Madrid sure makes it seem so. In a video posted on Facebook, Poncho the dog springs into action when his partner falls to t...

EDMONTON - The injury-riddled Edmonton Eskimos have signed veteran Canadian receiver Sam Giguere. The Montreal Alouettes released the 32-year-old native of Sherbrooke, Que., in January. Giguere played...

Two media advocacy groups say charges against a pair of Ontario journalists arrested on the job are an assault on freedom of the press. The groups say Aylmer Express publisher John Hueston and his son...