Category Archives: Canadian Press

BEIRUT - Renewed airstrikes killed at least 20 civilians as they fled government advances in Syria’s besieged eastern part of Aleppo Tuesday, opposition groups reported as troops continued to ta...

NEW YORK - In chillingly detailed articles in a slick online magazine, Islamic State extremists exhorted English-language readers this fall to carry out attacks with knives and vehicles. Using those v...

VANCOUVER - For the first time police in Vancouver have linked a fatal overdose to the highly toxic drug carfentanil. Officials say a drug sample was seized from an East Vancouver home where a 39-year...

MONTREAL - A battle is brewing in Quebec as Junex attempts to become the province’s first oil producer in a century. Environmentalists say they’ll strongly oppose the company’s (TSXV...

VICTORIA - About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government int...

TORONTO - Police are looking for a man they allege sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman outside the stadium after Sunday’s Grey Cup in Toronto. Toronto police say the incident occurred around ...

CROSSFIELD, Alta. - RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it. Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachment were c...

TORONTO - Researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose seizures can’t be co...

HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has formed a partnership with a prominent aboriginal leader to encourage corporate Canada to do more to promote dialogue and reconciliation with aborigina...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says a boost in personal income tax revenue contributed to increasing the province’s bottom line for the second quarter. Mike de Jong said in...