Category Archives: Canadian Press
Trudeau tabs career security official to head Canada's spy agency
OTTAWA - David Vigneault, a senior government official with experience at several federal security agencies, will be the next head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Vigneault will assume ...
May 11, 2017
Halfback Ryan Brierley gets new rugby league lease on life with the Wolfpack
TORONTO - Despite leaving the Super League and moving two divisions down to join the Toronto Wolfpack, Ryan Brierley says he is living the dream. Rugby league is fun again for the 25-year-old halfback...
May 11, 2017
Five things to know about how the Conservatives will choose a new leader
OTTAWA - Conservative party members have begun voting to select their new leader, with mail-in ballots now returning to a depot in Toronto ahead of the official vote count on May 27. Here are five thi...
May 11, 2017
Four men found guilty in Toronto cafe killing
TORONTO - Four men accused of arranging a brazen daytime killing at a crowded Toronto cafe as part of a feud among drug traffickers were found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday. The conviction...
May 11, 2017
Peacekeeping mission must start with exit strategy, military officials warn
OTTAWA - Make sure you have a plan to get out before you actually get in. That is one of the main messages of an internal paper that military officials prepared last summer as they considered the chal...
May 11, 2017
Nova Scotia election roundup
HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives are promising balanced budgets over four years, but their not saying what would be cut to keep the books balanced. Tory Leader Jamie Ba...
May 11, 2017
Class-action lawsuit initiated over potentially defective cardiac defibrillators
TORONTO - Two Toronto law firms have launched a Canada-wide class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of implantable defibrillators that can fail with little or no warning because of potentially ...
May 11, 2017
Dillier wins stage 6 of the Giro, Canada's Woods fifth
TERME LUIGIANE, Italy - Silvan Dillier won from an early breakaway to take the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia and his first Grand Tour victory on Thursday, while Toronto’s Mike Woods fin...
May 11, 2017
Casse: State of Honor could run in $1-million Queen's Plate on July 2
TORONTO - He made the Run for The Roses, and now State of Honor could be set to take a Gallop for the Guineas. The Ontario-bred and owned horse was heading back to Woodbine Racetrack following his 19-...
May 11, 2017
Kazoo, Kaos, Karma: winning names in RCMP 'Name the Puppy' contest
INNISFAIL, Alta. - The puppies have names! The RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre in Alberta received close to 21,000 entries in their contest to name the first 13 German shepherd puppies to be b...
May 11, 2017