Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - A man who drove a van into worshippers near a London mosque, killing one man and injuring a dozen others, was sentenced Friday to at least 43 years in prison for what a judge called a crime d...

MONTREAL - Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Universite de Montreal later this year. The university announced Friday the longtime federal and Quebec pol...

HALIFAX - A Halifax city councillor under fire for retweeting a Canadian “ethno-nationalist” group has dismissed criticisms, even as official complaints poured into city hall Friday. ̶...

KABUL - Afghan security forces uncovered an Islamic State hideout packed with explosives and suicide vests this week in a poor western neighbourhood of the capital, Kabul. An intelligence official tol...

GENEVA - About 90 people are feared drowned after a smuggler’s boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya’s coast early Friday, the U.N.’s migration agency said. Ten ...

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The family of two of the three people who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Montreal said Friday that words cannot fully describe the feelings of desolation and incomprehen...

OTTAWA - At Anthony Morgan’s law office, the calls keep coming: parents of young black men hoping their son’s marijuana possession charge will be wiped clean when the country legalizes the...

PARIS - Two French military helicopters on a training flight crashed Friday in the woods of Provence from an apparent mid-air collision, killing the five people aboard, officials said. The crash occur...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 2 --- PM TRUDEAU FACES MORE QUESTIONS AT TOWN HALL A disabled veteran, an Indigenous woman angry about racism and people worried about stalled oil pipelines hu...

TORONTO - When University of Victoria basketball coach Dani Sinclair went into labour in the middle of a hard-fought playoff run, she struggled with a dilemma no male coach ever faces: should she reco...