Category Archives: Canadian Press

BURNABY, B.C. - An RCMP officer laughed with a police dispatcher about a call reporting six gunshot sounds in a quiet neighbourhood in rural British Columbia in 2008, not realizing that a woman lay dy...

MONTREAL - U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on auto imports from Canada would devastate the integrated supply chain that has taken decades to build and cause jo...

TORONTO - West Indies cricket star Darren Sammy says he has no problem playing with disgraced former Australia skipper Steve Smith in the Global T20 Canada tournament. Sammy and Smith were the top two...

ROCKPORT, Maine - A Maine town is raising money to save the statue of a beloved harbour seal that brought the community together. The Bangor Daily News reports Rockport’s 1978 statue of Andre th...

TORONTO - One of the country’s foremost railway companies will have to ensure cars can use a bridge in Thunder Bay, Ont., under terms of an agreement signed more than a century ago, Ontario̵...

VANCOUVER - An apartment fire in North Vancouver has killed two people and sent a dozen to hospital for treatment of various injuries. The victims were trapped when the blaze tore through one of four ...

EDMONTON - It’s closing time for Alberta’s homegrown subsidy designed to help its beer brewers. Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the province is changing the program after an appeal panel ru...

A sexual assault complainant who testified against her alleged attacker — but then simply refused to finish cross-examination — has presented a rare quandary for the justice system. The ma...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut politician says the territory isn’t doing enough to protect children under the practice of custom adoption. “It’s wide open,” said Cathy Towtongie,...

SINGAPORE - Miles from Washington, staring down a momentous meeting with a North Korean autocrat, President Donald Trump had plenty of other things on his mind, too. On the eve of his big summit with ...