Category Archives: Canadian Press

Ontario’s Liberal government, which is facing a spring election, has promised to offer free child care for preschool-age kids starting in 2020. Here’s a glance at what other provinces offe...

CALGARY - A Calgary police officer was in hospital Tuesday with his family by his side after being shot by a suspect in a residential neighbourhood in the city’s northeast. Police Chief Roger Ch...

MONTREAL - Renovations to Montreal’s Biodome will mean 4,500 animals who have called it home will be moving out temporarily. They will mainly be housed in and around the city during the major ye...

MIAMI - Canada’s Milos Raonic advanced to quarterfinals of the Miami Open following a straight-sets victory over Jeremy Chardy of France on Tuesday. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., dispatched the ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard has been given new powers to call on industry for short-term help in clearing ice-choked seaways - even as plans for replacing the agency’s aging icebreaker fle...

Health Canada is warning it has discovered numerous unsafe USB chargers during a national assessment of products on the market and a recall has been issued affecting more than 1.5 million units. The f...

TORONTO - No evidence exists that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne or any of her senior ministers acted in bad faith when they made the surprise decision to privatize part of provincial utility Hydro On...

OTTAWA - The role the federal government and its arms-length organizations play in the Canadian medical system needs a dramatic overhaul, including phasing out three of the eight agencies, says a new ...

TORONTO - There’s growing chatter in North America about adopting right-to-disconnect laws to free workers from being tethered to their phones around the clock, but some labour experts say that ...

BROSSARD, Que. - Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber says he played over two months with a torn tendon in his left foot after being injured in Montreal’s season opener against the Buffalo Sabres. Th...