Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Aug. 4 --- PM SAYS GOVERNMENT CAN HANDLE ASYLUM SEEKER SURGE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has the resources and the capacity to deal with the su...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Cynthia Nixon’s name is being mentioned as a possible candidate for governor in New York. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report Friday that the “Sex & the City...

LONDON - It was classic Bolt. The World’s Fastest Man saved his best for last. Lumbering out of the starting blocks and closer to last than first for half the race, Usain Bolt sped away nonethel...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A spokesman for Kenya’s main opposition group said Friday that armed and masked police raided their vote tallying centres, intimidating workers and seizing equipment ahead of ne...

LONDON - A national record, and a Canadian best-ever eighth place finish - but Mohammed Ahmed wants more. The 26-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., laid down Canada’s finest performance over 10...

MONTREAL - A former political aide to ex-Quebec premier Pauline Marois has pleaded guilty to counselling a criminal offence that was not committed. Ernest Murray was part of a group of seven people, i...

OTTAWA - Parliament Hill was absorbed by the scandal that was Anthony Scaramucci this week, with even the most focused of policy-makers wondering how their best-laid plans on NAFTA could possibly deli...

NEWPORT, R.I. - Music fans are making their annual pilgrimage to the Newport Jazz Festival, which has a lineup that includes Bela Fleck, Snarky Puppy and The Roots. Friday is the first day of the thre...

TORONTO - He’s leading the CFL in rushing and helped the Calgary Stampeders get on a nice roll but the bye week comes at a great time for Jerome Messam. The burly six-foot-three, 255-pound runni...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s NDP government is bringing back the province’s human rights commission, which was scuttled by the previous Liberal regime in 2002 in favour of a complaint-dr...