Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Universite de Montreal is monitoring its IT network after about 120 of the school’s computers were infected with the same cyberattack that hit computers around the world. University s...

LOS ANGELES - Zac Efron has signed on to star as Ted Bundy in a biopic about the serial killer. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety report Efron will play Bundy in “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly E...

WINNIPEG - Age-related arthritis has led to a long-standing resident of Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo being euthanized. Zoo officials confirmed Monday in a Facebook posting that Kendra, a matr...

OTTAWA - Airlines won’t be allowed to bump passengers from a flight against their will under a new passenger bill of rights introduced Tuesday by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. That chang...

OTTAWA - Canada's top accountant is calling on the federal government to kick start much-needed improvements to airports in Canada's remote north. In his spring report to Parliament, auditor general M...

OTTAWA - It’s nearly impossible to tell if the government is meeting a promise to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies because it won’t provide the necessary information, the audito...

OTTAWA - Canada’s temporary foreign workers program is rife with oversight problems that appear to have allowed lower-paid international workers to take jobs that out-of-work Canadians could fil...

OTTAWA - Some of the highlights from auditor general Michael Ferguson’s spring 2017 report, tabled Tuesday: - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members, with new mental ...

OTTAWA - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members due to a lack of resources, poor monitoring and meagre support from supervisors, says the federal spending watchdog. While t...

WASHINGTON - American industry expanded production last month at the fastest pace in more than three years as manufacturers and mines recovered from a March downturn. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday ...