Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - When recreational cannabis is legalized on Oct. 17, the only legal retailer in Ontario will be the government-run Ontario Cannabis Store through its online website OCS.ca. The site will be u...

If Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to return as chairman, shareholders will have to vote on it. The requirement is detailed in a court brief filed jointly on Thursday by Tesla and the Securities and Exchang...

Halifax’s outspoken Roman Catholic archbishop is calling for a “Year of Atonement,” in a bid to unify a church divided over its response to a long-running series of sexual abuse scan...

VANCOUVER - After 10 years leading British Columbia’s largest city, Gregor Robertson is preparing to step away from the helm. Whatever the outgoing mayor set out to achieve for Vancouver has lar...

LAS VEGAS - UFC fighters Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor are being suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for a brawl that erupted inside and outside the octagon after their lightweight ti...

NEW YORK - Walmart, AT&T and Disney are joining stalwarts such as Netflix in streaming video and creating original shows. But a reality is setting in: Not all will survive. Over the past week, Wal...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs says race relations are improving in the province, but there is still a lot of work to do. Tony Ince made the comments Thursday a...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based mining company says soft copper and equity markets have combined to undermine the sale of its property in central Yukon, so it plans to shut the Minto Mine until a better...

TORONTO - Employers are required to do what they can to accommodate medical marijuana users as well as those addicted to pot but that doesn’t give employees carte blanche to show up at work ston...

OTTAWA - Border Security Minister Bill Blair is launching a national public conversation about whether Canada should ban handguns and assault weapons. Blair announced today he will lead a series of pu...