Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - An external report warned more than a decade ago that a Nova Scotia hospital was “verging” on violating the basic rights of people with disabilities by forcing them to live in a ...

BURLEY, Idaho - A high school in southeast Idaho was briefly placed on lockdown after a bull escaped an auction yard and stormed past the campus. The Times-News reports the Black Angus bull rampaged a...

WINDHOEK, Namibia - Canada’s cricket team was at the wrong end of a thrilling finish against Nepal in ICC World Cricket League Division 2 play Wednesday. Led by Srimantha Wijeratne’s unbea...

A Toronto fire captain who was found at a California airport six days after vanishing from a New York state ski slope likely sustained some sort of head trauma along his puzzling journey across the co...

BERLIN - German police are investigating a case of severe pizza stalking in the western town of Dortmund. Police are looking for someone who’s bombarded a lawyer by sending scores of pizzas to h...

WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and his staff lied that he was getting an award in order to justify his wife accompanying him at taxp...

NEW YORK - America’s new top dog became best in a Broadway show. Flynn the bichon frise took quite a victory lap on Valentine’s Day, hours after he won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show...

BOSTON - Students and alumni at some of the nation’s top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies that give an edge to relatives of alumni. Campus groups for first...

YARMOUTH, N.S. - Three Nova Scotia fishermen who were captured on video abusing and killing a seal pup on their boat have been handed hefty fines and a fishing prohibition. Prosecutor Alex Pink said M...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has met its goal of shortening wait times for those hoping to sponsor their spouse from abroad. Hussen says the backlog of applications n...