Category Archives: Canadian Press

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Nexen Energy has pleaded not guilty to eight charges stemming from a fatal explosion at the company’s oilsands site in northern Alberta. Drew Foster, who was 52 and from N...

WASHINGTON - The House overwhelmingly approved a bill to improve school safety Wednesday, the first gun-related action by Congress since the shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida high school. The bi...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued a blanket condemnation of terrorist acts Wednesday following media reports about his attendance at a California rally three years ago that sang the praises of ...

Students hoisted “Stand United” signs. They chanted “”Hey, hey, ho, ho – the NRA has got to go” outside the White House. Others put 14 desks and 3 podiums in a circ...

Trey Rutherford can’t wait to become a football player again. The burly six-foot-five, 312-pound offensive guard is preparing for the University of Connecticut’s pro day next Wednesday. Th...

EDMONTON - A man accused in the attempted murder of an Edmonton police officer is facing a trial after two mental-health assessments found he’s fit to do so. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif faces 12 charg...

HALIFAX - He is the ultimate hero of the Halifax Explosion: Vince Coleman saved a trainload of passengers at the cost of his own life. On Wednesday, a ferry named for the train dispatcher was put into...

TORONTO - Selling legal pot somewhere other than government-run stores in Ontario would be “reckless,” the province’s premier said Wednesday, slamming comments from Tory leader Doug ...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - Karin Huster had just arrived home from work and walked in the front door when the phone rang. It was her daughter’s school principal. He said her daughter Nata...

LOXLEY, Ala. - One minute members of the Texas high school band were sleeping soundly on an early morning bus trip home from a much-anticipated trip to a music festival at Disney World. The next minut...