Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has become Canada’s latest abortion battleground, as a lobby group pressures the provincial government to fund the procedure at private clinics. The government said T...

OTTAWA - A pediatric doctor and a health administrator have been tabbed to examine how four indigenous men from northern Manitoba were switched at birth 40 years ago. Federal Health Minister Jane Phil...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled El Salvador’s Pacific coast Thursday, but the country’s civil defence agency said there were no immediate reports of damages ...

MANITOWOC, Wis. - The lawyer for a Wisconsin man convicted in a case profiled in the “Making a Murderer” Netflix series says an agreement to start independent scientific testing on several...

ALBANY, N.Y. - President-elect Donald Trump has made big promises when it comes to building new highways, tunnels, bridges and airports in America - and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping he makes g...

OTTAWA - The Mounties have reached an agreement with China to try and halt the transpacific flow of fentanyl into Canada. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and Chen Zhimin, the vice-minister of China̵...

LONDON - Lindsay Lohan has apologized to an English town for failing to keep a date to switch on its Christmas lights. The actress posted a video on Twitter saying she couldn’t attend Thursday&#...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch is proposing to scrap the CBC if she manages to reach the Prime Minister’s Office. Leitch, whose leadership campaign made headlines when sh...

LUNENBURG, N.S. - Work is underway to replace the heavy steel rudder on the Bluenose II, as the iconic schooner’s problem-plagued restoration finally appears headed toward a conclusion. Transpor...

HALIFAX - Ten Nova Scotia doctors are being investigated for irregularities in their prescribing practices for highly addictive opioids, as a monitoring system documents over 5,000 patients receiving ...