Author Archives: The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Residents of a Toronto neighbourhood where two sisters were shot and wounded while they played in a local park questioned the safety of their community on Friday as police searched for two m...

By Jim Bronskill OTTAWA - Societies governing the legal profession have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at a Christian university in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Can...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a union's appeal of a key ruling about random drug testing at Suncor Energy's oilsands operations in northeast Alberta. Suncor began testing staff in...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The company behind the 2016 oil spill that fouled the North Saskatchewan River and threatened the water supply of Prince Albert and other communities wants to build new pipeline...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says the federal prison service has failed to ensure its psychological assessment tools are fair to Indigenous inmates. In a decision today, the high court accepts...

TORONTO - New statistics find almost half of the colorectal cancers in Canada are discovered after they've already spread, even though most provinces and territories have screening programs that can c...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is rejecting more than a dozen Senate amendments to its landmark law to legalize cannabis, including the upper chamber's efforts to further limit - or ban outri...

By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer has removed Quebec MP Maxime Bernier from his role as the party's innovation critic. A senior Conservative source tel...

MOSCOW - Canada has won the right to co-host the 2026 World Cup. FIFA's member associations have voted in favour of the joint North American bid by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico over that of Morocco. Th...

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of fans lined Constitution Avenue and filled the National Mall on Tuesday to celebrate the Washington Capitals' first Stanley Cup championship. The parade and rally ...