Category Archives: Canadian Press
New Vancouver real estate figures anticipated after month of foreign-buyers tax
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver’s real estate market is bracing for a steep decline in detached home sales recorded in August, as new numbers will offer a first look at the immediate impact of a tax...
Sep 01, 2016
Lawyer for veterans wants Liberals to live up to election promise on pensions
CALGARY - The lawyer for Canadian veterans involved in a legal battle with the federal government says the Department of Veterans Affairs is playing politics with his clients. Don Sorochan said Thursd...
Sep 01, 2016
Lawyer for veterans wants Liberals to live up to election promise on pensions
CALGARY - The lawyer for Canadian veterans involved in a legal battle with the federal government says the Department of Veterans Affairs is playing politics with his clients. Don Sorochan said Thursd...
Sep 01, 2016
Former Windsor Spitfires player found guilty of sexually assaulting girl, 16
WINDSOR, Ont. - A former player with the OHL Windsor Spitfires has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the washroom of a Windsor, Ont., bar in March 2013. Justice Kirk Munro...
Sep 01, 2016
'Climbing or screaming:' Alberta woman recounts escape from abandoned well
REDWATER, Alta. - An Alberta woman says she has been sore and sleep deprived since she spent hours clinging to the sides of an abandoned well near Edmonton earlier this week. Trieva McBeth plunged mor...
Sep 01, 2016
'Climbing or screaming:' Alberta woman recounts escape from abandoned well
REDWATER, Alta. - An Alberta woman says she has been sore and sleep deprived since she spent hours clinging to the sides of an abandoned well near Edmonton earlier this week. Trieva McBeth plunged mor...
Sep 01, 2016
Police in B.C. city believe fentanyl involved in 9 overdoses within 20 minutes
DELTA, B.C. - It’s a miracle that no one died after nine people overdosed within a 20-minute period on what are believed to be drugs laced with fentanyl, a police chief in British Columbia says....
Sep 01, 2016
Police in B.C. city believe fentanyl involved in 9 overdoses within 20 minutes
DELTA, B.C. - It’s a miracle that no one died after nine people overdosed within a 20-minute period on what are believed to be drugs laced with fentanyl, a police chief in British Columbia says....
Sep 01, 2016
Dallas chief who oversaw response to sniper attack to retire
Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, two months after his impassioned response to a sniper attack that killed five officers made him the face of a city reeling from trage...
Sep 01, 2016
Driver of Jeep that killed Edmonton woman during event says vehicle took off
EDMONTON - The driver of a Jeep that hit and killed an Edmonton woman during an off-road demonstration at a charity event says the vehicle “launched” when he turned the key in the ignition...
Sep 01, 2016