Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Rocco Sollecito, a reputed Mafia leader in Montreal who was murdered last May, was denied a public commemoration Mass in Italy on Tuesday due to his infamy. An archbishop and a local police...

TORONTO - A list of The Canadian Press business newsmakers of the year, as determined in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country: 2016: The Foreign Investor 2015: Bank of Canada governor Stephe...

Calgary’s police chief says the Alberta government has to take more aggressive action on fentanyl if it wants to help addicts and families who are being destroyed. “It is a crisis,” ...

Penny Oleksiak stared at the wall and told herself to be proud of her performance. Her country already was. It was 20 seconds after she touched the timing pad in the women’s 100-metre freestyle ...

TORONTO - A nameless, faceless figure at the heart of the controversy surrounding soaring real estate prices has been named The Canadian Press business newsmaker of the year. As home prices in Vancouv...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives are already raising much more money than their opponents. But Premier Brian Pallister is now eyeing changes to fundraising rules that on...

Quebec’s independent police review board is investigating after an alleged machete-wielding man was shot and killed after a car chase with police. The review board says the car chase through the...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 27 --- TWO HIKERS MISSING ON BC’s CYPRESS MOUNTAIN A search was set to resume at first light for two hikers believed missing on Cypress Mountain in Bri...

VANCOUVER - The number of people using prescription opioids long-term in British Columbia was growing at a “silent but steady” rate for years before the current overdose crisis erupted, a ...

WINNIPEG - A prairie snowstorm that blanketed much of southern Manitoba closed highways and prompted authorities in Winnipeg to ask residents to stay home. Environment Canada meteorologist Bryan Van W...