Category Archives: Canadian Press

RIO DE JANEIRO - A fire early Friday swept through the sleeping quarters of an academy for Brazil’s popular professional soccer club Flamengo, killing 10 people and injuring three, most likely t...

TORONTO - Serial killer Bruce McArthur murdered eight men from Toronto’s gay village for “his own warped and sick gratification,” an Ontario judge said Friday as he sentenced the 67-...

CALGARY - A couple found guilty in the death of their son have told a sentencing hearing that they feel a deep sorrow for their loss. A jury found Jennifer and Jeromie Clark guilty last fall of crimin...

CALGARY - Canada’s transport minister has ordered the use of handbrakes on all trains stopped on mountain slopes following a deadly derailment earlier this week in the Rocky Mountains. Marc Garn...

OTTAWA - Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was involved in extensive, internal government discussions last fall about whether SNC-Lavalin should be allowed to avoid criminal prosecution - a...

REGINA - Debbie Baptiste says she was hopeful when she went into the trial of the man accused of killing her son. Hopeful that she would find justice for Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man who was...

MOSCOW - Russia will be able to compete at next year’s Paralympics in Tokyo after being reinstated Friday, more than two years after the country was suspended for widespread doping. The IPC rule...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 8 --- SINGH WANTS INVESTIGATION INTO SNC-LAVALIN CASE NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for an ethics investigation into allegations that the Prime Minister&...

ST. LOUIS - An oil leak near St. Louis prompted the closure of parts of two pipelines as crews work to determine the source, company officials and Missouri regulators said Thursday. The leak was disco...

Thursday’s Games NHL Ottawa 4 Anaheim 0 Montreal 5 Winnipeg 2 Edmonton 4 Minnesota 1 Chicago 4 Vancouver 3 (OT) San Jose 5 Calgary 2 Los Angeles 3 Philadelphia 2 (SO) Florida 3 Pittsburgh 2 (OT)...