Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Critics who claim parents weren’t consulted during an update of Ontario’s sexual education curriculum are wrong, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Tuesday as she defended her Liberal g...

HALIFAX - A Halifax taekwondo coach has been suspended after a 17-year-old student was struck with a cane as discipline. Halifax police say they investigated a report of an assault at Woo Yong’s...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government will move to ban sales of sugary, high-alcohol beverages in convenience and grocery stores in an attempt to prevent younger consumers from buying them. Public Security...

OTTAWA - More than 200 former residential school students who suffered abuse at the hands of other students will receive compensation from the federal government. Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Car...

TORONTO - The federal government officially threw its support behind the North American bid for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday, with the promise of up to $5 million in immediate help should the unified...

HAMILTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has an array of measures, including tariffs, to prevent the world’s producers of cheap steel from using Canada as a back door to slip the metal i...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Rescuers in southwestern Alaska resumed their search of a mountain peak Tuesday for a missing British Columbia man and his climbing companion. Megan Peters with the Alaska State Troop...

The Canadian Press erroneously reported Monday, March 12, that Master Seaman Daniel Cooper of Halifax was demoted to leading seaman after being convicted of sexually assaulting a subordinate and ill t...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s personal assistant was removed from his job this week, leaving the president more isolated amid a growing exodus of many of his most trusted aides. John McE...

OTTAWA - The head of the Bank of Canada is pointing to Quebec’s child-care policies as possible tools to boost the entire Canadian economy, thanks to their potential to unlock the greatest untap...