Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEWMARKET, Ont. - Police and the family of a woman struck and killed while crossing a street in a town north of Toronto are appealing for witnesses to come forward. Canadian author and columnist Gordo...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for the man charged with stealing Frances McDormand’s Academy Award said Wednesday that he and his client plan to “forcefully and aggressively resist” the alle...

EDMONTON - A Edmonton homeless man whose spontaneous piano performance was viewed on the internet by millions of people has died. Ryan Arcand, 46, died last weekend in a supportive housing complex whe...

HALIFAX - A dispute over the federal government’s decision to award a multimillion-dollar Arctic surf clam fishing licence to a Nova Scotia company continued to fester Wednesday, as Federal Fish...

TORONTO - A former Somali child refugee will have to wait two weeks to find out whether his deportation hearing will proceed, an adjudicator ruled Wednesday. At an immigration hearing in Toronto, a la...

NEW YORK - Clustered around a touchscreen at the Sept. 11 museum, a group of high school students inscribed a message that began, “#neveragain.” The sentiment fit where they were, but also...

REGINA - The father of a young Indigenous man who was killed on a Saskatchewan farm says he is heartbroken the Crown will not appeal the acquittal of the man accused in the fatal shooting. Last month,...

BERLIN - An Afghan man admitted to stabbing and severely injuring a family of three and a 20-year-old compatriot in Vienna because “he was in a bad, aggressive mood and upset about his life̵...

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor has been appointed in British Columbia to handle a case involving 24 sex-related charges against a former mayor of Burns Lake. The prosecution service says Vancouver la...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan coroner’s office is investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl who was found under snow behind her home. Police and other first responders were called to a Regina re...