Category Archives: Canadian Press

SASKATOON - The father of a young man who left long tire skid marks on a Saskatoon crosswalk freshly painted with the hues of the LGBTQ community’s rainbow flag says his son didn’t realize...

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick boxer remains in an induced coma a week-and-a-half after suffering a brain hemorrhage in the hours following a Fredericton bout. Thirty-eight-year-old David Whittom is li...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - One of Labrador’s most outspoken aboriginal leaders buried his 16-year-old son last week. Simeon Tshakapesh, deputy grand chief of the Innu Nation, says his boy, Thunder...

SULLVIAN, N.Y. - A man hired to portray the Tin Man in “Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum’s upstate New York hometown was still in his character’s makeup when his mug shot was...

Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews has some new ink. A tattoo artist in his hometown of Scottsdale, Ariz., says he is responsible for the large image of a Lion wearing a crown on Matthews’...

Montreal will table new regulations to protect the welfare of horses working in the city’s controversial horse-drawn carriage industry, Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday. Coderre said the ...

TORONTO - The OECD is calling on Canada to do more to address risks associated with high-priced housing markets in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver, the latest international body to draw attention...

TORONTO - It was supposed to be a night of boozing, partying and team building for about a dozen Toronto police officers, but sometime between 12:20 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. three of them forced themselves ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A fan of right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos (MY’-loh yuh-NAH’-poh-lihs) has filed a lawsuit against the regents of the University of California, the mayor of Berkeley...

NEW YORK - Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, is worried about democracy. Albright’s next book, “Fascism,” is a warning that democratic governments are “fragile...