Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal immigration minister has ordered a review of the asylum process in Canada in a bid to speed up the system. Ahmed Hussen said the review will examine how claims are currently handl...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s unemployment rate hit its lowest level in decades in May, helped by full employment for the prime workforce aged 15 to 54 years. Six per cent of Quebecers were unemployed, th...

HELENA, Mont. - U.S. Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte of Montana will plead guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before being elected the state’s only congressman last month, a prosecutor said Frida...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man accused in a bar shooting in suburban Kansas City that left one Indian national dead and another wounded was indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime charges, the U.S. J...

MONTREAL - Canada soccer coach Octavio Zambrano has trimmed his roster to 23 for next Tuesday’s friendly with Curacao in Montreal. Zambrano had brought 28 to camp, reducing the numbers after a t...

OTTAWA - Quebec may finally get access to data from the defunct federal long-gun registry. Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tabled a bill in the Commons on Friday that will allow the provi...

HINTON, Alta. - A coal mining company has been handed almost $4.5 million in federal and provincial penalties for a spill from its tailings pond that fouled tributaries feeding the Athabasca River in ...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Coast Guard has dispatched two ships to the mid Atlantic to assist three sailboats that were battered - and in one case demasted - by a powerful storm during an across-the-ocean...

PITTSBURGH - Sidney Crosby put on a show in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final, but his brilliant night was overshadowed by some out-of-character behaviour. Crosby pushed the Penguins one step closer to ...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, June 9 --- BIBEAU VOWS TO FIGHT FOR MORE FUNDING FOR FEMINIST AID POLICY: International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will keep lobbying i...