Category Archives: Canadian Press

STAND OFF, Alta. - The organization that delivers health programs for the Alberta government has fired two employees over a racial slur made against an indigenous educator. Last week Alberta Health Se...

VANCOUVER - A woman who has accused British Columbia’s former RCMP spokesman of sexual assault defended sending him friendly emails after the alleged attack during a heated cross-examination Mon...

MESETAS, Colombia - Leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year to end a h...

DETROIT - A legendary recording studio in Detroit that once welcomed artists such as Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis has received a historic marker just four years after being targeted for demolition....

TORONTO - Owner/breeder Frank Stronach is a three-time Queen’s Plate champion, but he will chase a career-first in this year’s race. Holy Helena will carry Stronach Stables’ colours ...

TORONTO - Michael Bradley says Toronto FC’s greatest strengths this season has been a consistency in focus and intensity game in and game out. But in a Canadian rivalry that grows increasingly h...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos have lost linebacker J.C. Sherritt for the entire CFL season after he suffered a ruptured left Achilles tendon. Sherritt suffered the injury in the second quarter of th...

MONTREAL - Canada’s softwood lumber industry faces average duties of about 27 per cent after the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped it with an additional 6.87 per cent in preliminary average an...

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say they’re trying to track down a man who allegedly stole a puppy and four kittens from a central Ontario pet store. Investigators say the animals were taken from the Barr...

BOSTON - The co-owner of a pharmacy responsible for the deaths of 76 people was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after he tearfully apologized to victims who described watching their loved one...