Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Quebec won’t be part of a working group the federal government wants to examine claims that Indigenous women have been sterilized against their will. A spokesperson for Quebec’s h...

Police are baffled after Newfoundland thieves made off with about 30,000 litres of unbottled iceberg water worth as much as $12,000. The unusual bounty, which was to be used to make vodka, was being s...

TORONTO - Micheal Wright plans to bring some NBA-style finesse to the Special Olympics World Summer Games this spring. Wright is the only Canadian out of 12 Special Olympics athletes competing in a Un...

DUNEDIN, Fla. - Ross Atkins doesn’t want to put a timetable on the eventual major league debut of baseball’s top prospect. The Blue Jays general manager said he’s looking at Vladimir...

OTTAWA - As he lays the groundwork for the Liberals’ last budget before the fall election, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been highlighting two themes for a national drug plan: the tw...

MADRID - Canada has avoided a confrontation with any of the current top eight singles players in the world in the opening round of the inaugural Davis Cup finals. In the draw on Thursday, No. 13-ranke...

TORONTO - Jeremy Lin came prepared for the Raptors. The nine-year-veteran did his homework in advance of his Toronto debut Wednesday night against the Washington Wizards. It showed in the unlikeliest ...

HALIFAX - New court documents reveal details of how one of the masterminds of a foiled plot to attack a Halifax mall on Valentine’s Day plans to appeal her life sentence. Lindsay Souvannarath is...

Quebec provincial police say they’ve arrested 32 people allegedly linked to a drug trafficking ring in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. The arrests carried out Thursday are in connection with d...

WASHINGTON - William Barr was sworn in Thursday for his second stint as the nation’s attorney general, taking the helm of the Justice Department as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Ru...