Author Archives: The Canadian Press

By Dan Healing, The Canadian Press CALGARY - The national bread price-fixing scandal has sparked heated debate over the Competition Bureau's immunity granting program, with a law enforcement expert de...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are proposing a tax break for parents of newborns. The Tories say they will introduce the proposed measure as a private members bill in the hope of having it passed ...

Canadian luger Sam Edney says it's a "dark day" for the Olympics after an international tribunal overturned suspensions and reinstated results for 28 Russian athletes accused of doping. The Court of A...

MOSCOW - Twenty-eight Russian athletes had their Olympic doping bans overturned Thursday, throwing the International Olympic Committee's policy on the country into turmoil. The Court of Arbitration fo...

OTTAWA - The Senate has passed a bill to make the national anthem more gender neutral, fulfilling the dying wish of Liberal MP Mauril Belanger. The Senate has given its final approval to the legislati...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says there will be consequences for British Columbia over the province's latest attempt to hinder expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain oil pipeline. N...

WINNIPEG - A 15-year-old girl had drugs and alcohol in her system when she was killed and thrown into the Red River in Winnipeg, a toxicologist testified at a murder trial Tuesday. Christopher Keddy, ...

BOSTON - Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids. A group letter sent Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that younger chi...

TORONTO - A self-employed landscaper now facing five counts of first-degree murder dismembered some of his male victims and buried their remains at the bottom of large planter boxes, Toronto police al...

QUEBEC - Amir Belkacemi addressed about a thousand people who braved the frigid cold in Quebec City on Monday night and asked them never to forget the tragic mosque shooting that killed his father and...