Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - The following is a transcript of the final conversations Sept. 2, 1998, involving the crew of ill-fated Swissair Flight 111, air traffic control centres in Moncton, N.B., and Halifax, as wel...

HALIFAX - Here is a chronology of events in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 and its aftermath: Sept. 2, 1998 8:18 p.m. EDT - MD-11 jet starts take-off roll on Runway 13R, John F. Kennedy airport, New...

HALIFAX - “Anyone who was there was involved, even with little things. We were supposed to go down to our wharfs every day and look hard to see if we saw anything … and there was a sense o...

HALIFAX - Some facts and figures about the Sept. 2, 1998, crash of Swissair Flight 111: Type of plane: McDonnell Douglas 11, or MD-11, manufactured by Boeing. Flight route: John F. Kennedy Internation...

FOX POINT, N.S. - Photographs of a cherubic toddler and bright-eyed young woman sit atop Bob Conrad’s well-worn piano, their smiling faces looking out to the site where the veteran fisherman rac...

Confident in the young talent at his disposal, Canada coach John Herdman says he’s not going to beg players to wear the Maple Leaf. “If you don’t feel it in your heart to come and pu...

MONTREAL - Nearly 1,000 kilometres from Washington, where a team of top Canadian negotiators sit in 11th-hour NAFTA discussions, Peter Strebel works under a cloud of concern at the rural Quebec dairy ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are considering whether a reshaping of federal labour standards should include giving workers the right to ignore their job-related emails at home. The idea of putting in...

The NCAA cleared Michigan State University of any rules infractions in the Larry Nassar sexual-assault scandal, the school announced Thursday. The school released a letter from Jonathan Duncan, the NC...

TORONTO - More than 100 health groups urged Doug Ford and Ontario’s health minister on Thursday to reconsider the province’s position on overdose prevention sites, saying a government deci...