Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A young Halifax mother has been jailed 30 months on pimping-related charges involving two girls aged 14 and 15. Tashlynn Shaw admitted driving the girls to meet clients, booking hotels for t...

NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan was named Eastern Conference player of the week on Monday while Houston Rockets guard James Harden took the Western Conference honour. DeRozan led all NB...

HALIFAX - More than 2,100 Nova Scotians have been given big-dose prescriptions of highly addictive painkillers this year, and addictions experts say the “disturbing” number demands the pro...

EDMONTON - The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president shouldn’t affect Alberta’s efforts to combat climate change, the province’s environment minister said Monday. Trump...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man accused of posting extremist Muslim propaganda online told police officers he doesn’t see a problem with his comments inspiring someone to shoot a Canadian sol...

CALGARY - The Jamaican bobsled team has a reliable set of wheels to get to its next race. The team’s van broke down in Calgary on the weekend on the way to a race at Canada Olympic Park. The ath...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will introduce legislation Tuesday to repeal a Criminal Code provision on anal intercourse that critics and courts say is unconstitutional and discriminates against gay...

TORONTO - Two crew members of a Porter Airlines flight en route from Ottawa to Toronto were slightly hurt Monday when a plane narrowly avoided a mid-flight collision with what may have been a drone, t...

OTTAWA - Alternatives to criminalizing a variety of illicit drugs in Canada could result in lower rates of use and fewer harms such as addiction, overdoses and infectious diseases, says an internal fe...

WASHINGTON - Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, jus...