Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - It took an Ontario prosecutor 10 minutes to read through a lifetime of pain for Laura Babcock. Jill Cameron walked the jury in the murder trial through the young woman’s mental health ...

LONDON - A British town plans to burn a 36-foot (11-meter) effigy of Harvey Weinstein at its annual Bonfire Night celebrations. Each year the Edenbridge Bonfire Society chooses a well-known figure to ...

NEW YORK - Day by day, the accusations pile up, as scores of women come forward to say they were victims of Harvey Weinstein. But others with stories to tell have not. For some of these women who̵...

Putting on equipment in the Sarnia Sting’s locker-room can be a hazardous business. Any piece of padding could be booby trapped, ready to leave you soaked. “I don’t want to give away...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government seems intent on proceeding with a pension bill which opposition parties maintain puts Finance Minister Bill Morneau in a blatant conflict of interest. New Democrats gav...

BRANDON, Man. - A retired non-commissioned officer at Canadian Forces Base Shilo in Manitoba has been acquitted of charges of sexual assault and disgraceful conduct. Commander Martin Pelletier ruled t...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government offered a taste of its peacekeeping plan on Wednesday by promising millions in funding for women’s rights abroad, even as signs point to an actual mission coming ...

CALGARY - Adam Turnbull has been catching fish in the South Saskatchewan River for 17 years and had never seen anything like it. Turnbull, 28, was reeling in a northern pike near his home in Medicine ...

BERLIN - It’s legal to drink beer in German movie theatres - but it’s probably not a good idea to try to open your beer bottle with a pepper spray canister. However, that’s exactly w...

GENEVA - In a landmark verdict that indicates Russia conspired to run a doping program at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a cross-country skier who won a gold medal was disqualified by the IOC on Wednesday. ...