Category Archives: Canadian Press

Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price will sit out at least one more game with a flu. The team says Price, who missed the Canadiens’ season-opening 4-1 win in Buffalo on Thursday, will not p...

VANCOUVER - The premier of British Columbia says the toxic nature of the United States presidential election race is a setback in the campaign to get more women involved in politics. Christy Clark say...

VANCOUVER - Sarah Blyth was weary of rushing to counteract an overdose every time someone screamed “Narcan!” from a nearby alley in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, so she joined other...

CALGARY - The federal government is reducing the size of a proposed emergency fund pipeline operators would be required to have on hand to deal with short-term costs of incidents such as spills. Natur...

Former Alberta premier and federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice died Thursday in a plane crash near Kelowna, British Columbia. Family, friends and political colleagues expressed their condolences: - ...

EDMONTON - Jim Prentice came of age “under the bins” of the Crowsnest Pass coal mines to emerge as Alberta’s 16th premier and one of the seminal figures of the modern-day conservativ...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the slow recovery from the Great Recession has surprised economists, confounding long-held beliefs about growth and inflation. Her rema...

NEW YORK - A major choral work composed in secret in 1920s Russia and never performed there will get its Russian debut later this month. New York City’s Clarion Choir will premiere Maximilian St...

NEW YORK - A painting from Claude Monet’s acclaimed “Grainstack” series is heading to auction next month and Christie’s says it could realize around $45 million. The 1891 paint...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s highest court will rule whether Montreal can appeal a lower court decision that put its controversial pit bull measures on ice pending a legal challenge. Lawyers for the city...