Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - A defence lawyer for one of three Toronto police officers accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague suggested on Friday that the woman made up the sexual assault allegations because ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Canada’s record against mighty New Zealand dropped to 0-13-0 Friday in a 28-16 loss at the International Women’s Rugby Series. But the third-ranked Canadian women...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says she is taking a sweeping look at the country’s youth employment strategy to better target help to those who need it most. The review comes in the wake o...

VICTORIA - A female deer on southern Vancouver Island is expected to be fine after conservation officers removed an arrow from its head. Officers spotted the doe Thursday and tracked it to Maple Bay, ...

TORONTO - A man who gunned down two people in Toronto’s landmark Eaton Centre mall is asking for a new trial, arguing the jury that convicted him more than two years ago was improperly selected....

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least 14 people, most of them civilians, were killed Friday as soldiers clashed over food aid in drought-ravaged Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa, where tens of thou...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A young Nova Scotia woman has been charged with manslaughter and drug trafficking after a 22-year-old woman died from an overdose linked to methadone. Meghan Elizabeth Nowe, 26, ap...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - An Australian filmmaker in Cambodia was charged with espionage Friday after being arrested for flying a camera drone over an opposition party campaign rally. James Ricketson was...

MANCHESTER, Tenn. - A man accused of bringing more than a thousand doses of fake drugs to the Bonnaroo music festival said he was doing “God’s Work” with the bogus substances, Tennes...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors wrapped up their case against Bill Cosby on Friday, saving until practically the very end the comedian’s damaging, decade-old testimony about giving quaaludes to wo...