Category Archives: Canadian Press

EDMONTON - A man facing several counts of attempted murder after a police officer was hit with a car and stabbed by an assailant is to face two psychiatric assessments. The reviews are to determine Ab...

TORONTO - An unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing that could see the United Church defrock a self-professed atheist minister who does not believe in the Bible has been postponed indefinitely. Th...

WHITEHORSE - A hunter has a harrowing tale of survival after nearly becoming the quarry during his first-ever bison hunt in Yukon. “All I seen was horns,” Todd Pilgrim said, describing the...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Dave Matthews Band will perform in St. Paul on the eve of the Super Bowl, adding to a growing list of entertainment leading up to the big game. The Dave Matthews Band will play at Xc...

NAPA, Calif. - A month after deadly wildfires swept through California’s famed wine country, hot-air balloons are floating again over Napa Valley vineyards splashed with fall colours. On the hee...

LONDON - Lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson, a towering legal figure who helped liberalize British laws around sex and freedom of expression, has died. He was 102. Hutchinson’s former law firm, Three Raym...

TORONTO - Anthony Bennett and Joel Anthony headline the preliminary roster for Canada’s pair of FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifying games this month. “This group of young men embody the p...

WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that alerts doctors when the medication has been taken, offering a new way of monitoring patients but also raising privacy conce...

PARIS - Thousands of French investors are hoping to recover some of the money they lost in an alleged pyramid scheme when a collection of rare manuscripts goes up for auction starting next month. The ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - As it edges closer to a ban from the Winter Olympics, the Russian sports world is a bitter place. Investigations into doping haven’t encouraged Russian athletes to speak...