Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Alice Wong says she was riding a bus back from Parliament Hill when she started to feel intimidated by a fellow passenger. “(He) stopped and hovered over me, began to wa...

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing new legislation to ensure students who join gay-straight alliances in school are not outed without their permission. Education Minister David Eggen says the new law wil...

MONTREAL - The next three months will be a busy time for Canada’s top boxers. Heavyweight Bermane Stiverne, light heavyweight Artur Beterbiev and middleweight David Lemeiux will be gunning for w...

OTTAWA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Canada this weekend for what his agency had hoped would be a chance to publicly applaud Canada’s decision to take in a highe...

DEL MAR, Calif. - Veteran trainer Catherine Day Phillips is hoping Dixie Moon can bring her an elusive Breeders’ Cup win. Day Phillips will send the two-year-old to the US$1-million Juvenile Fil...

TORONTO - There are several advantages to an Ontario woman’s plan to sue Harvey Weinstein over alleged sexual assaults, note legal experts who say a civil court can offer better prospects for a ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Nov. 2 --- U.S. PROCUREMENT PROPOSAL WOULD GUT SECTION OF NAFTA: A Canadian diplomat says a Trump administration proposal to limit access to American procur...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has ba...

OTTAWA - A senior Canadian foreign ministry official says it is hard to see a way forward in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations because of a series of “problematic” pro...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska investigators say no evidence of animal cruelty was found after an animal rights group complained about a kennel operated by four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey, who w...