Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia swim team is taking a creative approach to its training. The Dartmouth Crusaders lost their home pool for more than an entire season while it undergoes renovations, so the head...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, May 29 --- TRANS MOUNTAIN PLAN EXPECTED TODAY Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to lay out a federal plan this morning to get Kinder Morgan’s Trans...

An “inconceivable” opening-night cancellation of “The Tempest” due to a bomb threat at the Stratford Festival ended up creating its own kind of magic in the tight-knit communit...

BRUSSELS - A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday as authorities s...

Quebec’s system at a glance: For more than 20 years, Quebec’s subsidized daycare program has been the envy of parents in the rest of the country. The system offers direct subsidies to thre...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - One of two suspects wanted in connection with an explosion that injured 15 people at a restaurant west of Toronto may be a woman, contrary to earlier reports, police said Tuesday. ...

MONTREAL - Canadian Pacific Rail’s more than 3,000 train operators walked off the job late Tuesday night while a second group of workers reached a tentative contract settlement with the rail com...

MONTREAL - When it comes to affordable daycare, Quebec’s low-fee program is the envy of many a parent in other parts of Canada. Under the much-vaunted but polarizing program introduced in 1997, ...

JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Tuesday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in the largest flare-up o...

CHICAGO - A fire department diver died after he jumped into the Chicago River in search of a boater who had fallen overboard, officials said. According to the Chicago Fire Department, Juan J. Bucio, 4...