Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Senate has passed a bill to make the national anthem more gender neutral, fulfilling the dying wish of Liberal MP Mauril Belanger. The Senate has given its final approval to the legislati...

Montreal says it will improve its snow-clearing policies after it received numerous complaints about the state of the city’s streets and sidewalks following the most recent storm. Jean-Francois ...

Nearly 30 per cent of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in countries affected by conflict and disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate, the U.N. children’s agency said Wednesday....

TORONTO - Former Toronto Raptors forward/guard Rasual Butler died Wednesday in a car accident. He was 38. The Raptors confirmed Butler’s death in an email to The Canadian Press. Butler played 34...

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United and Chelsea couldn’t afford any slip-ups if they were to have even the slightest chance of catching Manchester City in the final months of the Premier Lea...

MIAMI - Canada has been drawn in a group with three-time defending champion U.S., Costa Rica and Bermuda at the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship. The regional championship, which runs...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Jan. 31 --- WATCHDOG ALLEGES 16-YEAR BREAD SCAM: The federal Competition Bureau alleges that at least $1.50 has been artificially baked into the price of a...

VICTORIA - Two former employees are suing a grocery store on Vancouver Island, alleging another worker surreptitiously took intimate photos of them and posted them online without consent. Jennifer Bur...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced questions on immigration, pipelines and Indigenous issues - and dealt with a few disruptions - during a town hall meeting with some 1,800 people at the U...

MONTREAL - “Take a deep breath, grind yourself. Go kill him.” That was one of the tweets the president of Telus Quebec had to apologize for on Wednesday, a day after one of the companyR...