Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick police officer recently caught a ride on a city bus to nab people using their cellphones while driving. Constable Duane Squires of Saint John police says the initiat...

CALGARY - With two daughters trying out for Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team, Steve and Jane Potomak are prepared for joy, tears or perhaps both. Sarah, 19, and Amy, 18, would be the f...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A man who shot and wounded a judge outside a county courthouse before being gunned down by a probation officer was the father of a high school football player who was convicted of rap...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government ended its status as the lone holdout among the provinces when it signed a health-care funding agreement with Ottawa on Monday. The gover...

RENOUS, N.B. - An inmate was taken to hospital after an assault at a maximum-security prison in New Brunswick. Officials at the federal Atlantic Institution in Renous say the victim was found injured ...

Montreal police say a tourist from California is in critical condition after falling four storeys early this morning. The incident took place at a popular bar in the Gay Village in the city’s do...

BERLIN - Germany’s Foreign Ministry is having some fun at the expense of a Breitbart News gaffe. The online news site’s London operation on Friday used a photo of famous German soccer star...

MOSCOW - A career Russian diplomat, who gained the reputation of a hawk during his earlier tenure at the Defence Ministry, was named the new ambassador to the United States on Monday. The 62-year old ...

TORONTO - An interim safe injection site in Toronto - the first such officially-sanctioned facility in Canada’s most populous city - will save lives as the city grapples with a spike in suspecte...

HELSINKI - The body of a woman has been found in the Baltic Sea near where a missing Swedish journalist is believed to have died on a privately built submarine, Danish police said late Monday. A femal...