Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - David Strangway, a geophysicist who served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA during the Apollo space missions, has died. University p...

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump picked “America’s Got Talent” star Jackie Evancho to sing the national anthem at his Jan. 20 inauguration. Here’s a list of some prev...

WASHINGTON - After raising its benchmark interest rate in response to a strengthening U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve foresees three more hikes in 2017. The Fed’s move to raise its key rate wi...

PICTOU, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia teacher with bipolar disorder who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of house arre...

OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might help rein in the...

Kavis Reed understands he has big shoes to fill. The 43-year-old native of Georgetown, S.C., was officially named general manager of the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday. In his first foray into CFL ma...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had asked the ...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to the Transport Department on Wednesday aimed at the commercial fishing industry after the capsizing in September 2015 of a ves...

BATHURST, N.B. - Two police officers charged in the fatal shooting of a New Brunswick businessman they mistakenly thought was involved in the drug trade won’t find out until next year whether th...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government made a bid for peace with the province’s teachers union Wednesday, while another labour battle was brewing with public servants. Premier Stephen McNeil asked...