Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Conservation groups have filed a new court challenge to the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. The request for judicial review filed with the Federal Cour...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 20 --- FEDS, PROVINCES AGREE TO DISAGREE ON HEALTH SPENDING The federal government hs pulled billions of dollars off the negotiating table after failing to r...

VANCOUVER - Their position on marijuana is hardly the only difference between Canada’s prime minister and the president-elect of the United States. But when Justin Trudeau’s government int...

VANCOUVER - Anastasia Lin says when she first learned about allegations the Chinese government was harvesting organs from religious prisoners to fuel its transplant industry, she decided to use an unc...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The goal has been to erect the world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree, but Sri Lankan organizers now say they’ll be lucky to get the tree up in time for the holiday...

MOSCOW - Russia, Turkey and Iran cast themselves as the essential deal-makers in Syria on Tuesday, saying at a trilateral meeting in Moscow that their co-operation could pave the way for a future sett...

WASHINGTON - So much for an Electoral College revolt. Despite weeks of lobbying and a day of protests, President-elect Donald Trump won all but two of the Electoral College votes he claimed on Electio...

BEIJING - China on Tuesday handed back to the United States an underwater drone it had seized last week in an incident that raised tensions in a relationship that has been tested by President-elect Do...

FREDERICTON - After three years of public consultation on the future of New Brunswick’s Mactaquac hydroelectric generating station, the province’s Crown-owned electric utility has decided ...

TORONTO - The Anaheim Ducks are masters of the draw this season. The NHL’s best faceoff team at 56 per cent, Anaheim put on a clinic Monday night in their 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, w...