Category Archives: Canadian Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The Court of Arbitration for Sport says a Russian boxer and Romanian weightlifter will lose medals from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after failing doping tests at the games. Mis...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia says there is no risk of a tsunami reaching the province’s coastline following a powerful earthquake in the South Pacific. The United States Geological Survey says a...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s preference for discussing climate change over health care is being used as an argument by the provinces to justify extending the annual six per cent incr...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Hundreds of people in remote parts of the Solomon Islands have had their homes damaged or destroyed by a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Friday, an aid organiza...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s human services minister says he didn’t botch an investigation into the death of a girl in government care and rejects opposition calls for his resignation. Irfan Sabir...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Could a subsea tunnel under the Strait of Belle Isle finally link northern Newfoundland with Labrador? It’s a question that for decades has inspired dreams of free-flowi...

HALIFAX - A charming blue-and-white ferry that long offered commuters the scenic route to work across Halifax Harbour will go to the highest bidder. “So many people have enjoyed their peaceful, ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Crown lawyer behind a controversial legal brief implying members of a First Nation band are a conquered people has been taken off the case. The province’s acting attorn...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Millions of people have seen a secretly recorded video of Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover police officer she was “5,000 per cent sure” about hiring him to kil...

QUEBEC - One of the most hardline sovereigntists in Quebec’s legislature said Thursday she’s considering a run at the Bloc Quebecois leadership. Parti Quebecois member Martine Ouellet said...