Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 1 --- COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PROPORTIONAL VOTING SYSTEM: A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new proportio...

Vancouver and Victoria will welcome the world’s top under-20 hockey players in 2019 when the cities co-host the world junior hockey championship. Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League ann...

TORONTO - Following an uproar from consumers, the company that runs the Air Miles loyalty points program says it is cancelling plans that would have seen collectors lose any miles not used within five...

NEW YORK - Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is stepping down as CEO of the coffee chain he joined more than 30 years ago and transformed into a globally known brand. Schultz will become executive cha...

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says British Columbia will create an environmental fund with money that it expects to receive as part of a deal to support Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion pro...

OTTAWA - Canada wants to work with the United States to face the “challenge” posed by Russia, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Thursday. Dion steered clear of weighing in direct...

NEW YORK - CBS says NFL games are coming to its CBS All Access subscription service, making it a little easier for “cord cutters” to watch football without a pricey cable subscription. The...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland motorist was stunned Thursday when a heavy piece of metal flew off a nearby truck and into her windshield. The large piece of metal, estimated to weigh more tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cirque du Soleil “Luzia” has cancelled its San Francisco shows through Friday and hired psychologists to counsel cast and crew members in the wake of an accident that kille...

HALIFAX - Tens of thousands of dead herring keep washing ashore along Nova Scotia’s western coastline, a mystery for biologists trying to figure out what is killing the small, silvery fish. The ...