Category Archives: Canada
Family calls for road-safety changes after cyclist dies in N.B. training crash
SUSSEX, N.B. - A competitive cyclist who died after being hit by a vehicle while training in New Brunswick was a positive, vibrant woman who was poised to go professional next year, her friends said. ...
Dec 28, 2016
Advocates hopeful Canada will stop criminalizing non-disclosure of HIV status
OTTAWA - Marjorie Schenkels had unprotected sex three times with a friend, while they both had been drinking, as she was going through a difficult and volatile time in her life. The Manitoba woman was...
Dec 28, 2016
Bomber with aplomb: football player tackles role in 'The Nutcracker' ballet
WINNIPEG - Maurice Leggett is used to wearing tights - on the football field. Still, a few people were disappointed when the Winnipeg Blue Bomber told them that he won’t be pulling on even tight...
Dec 28, 2016
Canadians face some tax changes in the new year after a busy 2016
MONTREAL - Canadians will ring in the new year with a number of tax changes that will affect the bottom line of federal and provincial governments. Here’s a look at some of them: Nationally: The...
Dec 28, 2016
New species wash up dead on N.S. beaches:'We're going back to the drawing board'
PLYMPTON, N.S. - Western Nova Scotia’s mysterious fish kill has spread to new species, with scores of dead starfish, clams, lobsters and mussels now washing ashore alongside thousands of herring...
Dec 28, 2016
Relative faces drunk driving charges after couple killed walking on N.L. road
CORNER BROOK, N.L. - People in a Newfoundland fishing village are mourning the deaths of a couple who were run down as they walked home from a Christmas gathering, allegedly by a relative now facing c...
Dec 28, 2016
Southern Ontario police force releases annual list of silliest 911 calls
CHATHAM-KENT, Ont. - A police force in southwestern Ontario has released a list of the silliest 911 calls it received in 2016, including one where a resident called the emergency line asking for the p...
Dec 28, 2016
Canada's female swimmers voted Canadian Press team of the year
Canada’s female swimmers soared to unexpected heights in 2016. Six Olympic medals followed by another seven in home water at the world short-course championship launched Canada as a world power ...
Dec 28, 2016
Pipelines selected as Canadian Press business news story of the year
CALGARY - The increasingly divisive debate over pipelines, with the economic benefits and environmental concerns they carry, has been selected as The Canadian Press business story of the year. In an a...
Dec 28, 2016
New species wash ashore in Nova Scotia following deaths of herring
PLYMPTON, N.S. - Massive numbers of dead starfish, clams, lobsters and mussels have washed up on a western Nova Scotia beach, compounding the mysterious deaths of tens of thousands of herring in the a...
Dec 28, 2016