Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal finance minister came to the defence Tuesday of the Liberals’ promised, $35-billion infrastructure bank, insisting it would create less risk for taxpayers than if the govern...

WASHINGTON - The United States struck pro-government forces in Syria with airstrikes for the second time in less than three weeks Tuesday, declaring them a threat to anti-Islamic State coalition fight...

SURREY, B.C. - Drug users will start injecting their own heroin or other illicit substances at a new supervised injection site opening this week in Surrey, B.C., in an effort to curb a crisis in overd...

OTTAWA - Canada has eight months to put forward a detailed plan to improve the health of its largest national park or risk having the United Nations add it to a list of world heritage sites considered...

LONDON - Street artist Banksy has rescinded his offer of a free artwork to voters who oppose the Conservatives in Britain’s election, after being warned it breached electoral rules. The artist h...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on the sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Bill Cosby’s lawyers are seizing on inconsistencies in his chief accuser’s recollect...

OGDEN, Utah - A minor league baseball team in Utah cancelled a planned “Hourglass Appreciation Night” promotion Tuesday after coming under fire for the event’s references to women...

SASKATOON - Former NFL quarterback Vince Young suffered a hamstring injury Tuesday at the Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp. The 34-year-old, who is attempting a comeback with the CFL club, was h...

VANCOUVER - A new report from a Vancouver credit union says home buyers on British Columbia’s southern coast can no longer turn to the suburbs to find more affordable housing. Vancity tracked th...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A man was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting six girls in the same family, fathering two children by one of them. Authorities allege the girls’ parents had “gifted&...