Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government needs more face time with the main players in the Trans Mountain pipeline impasse to push the controversial expansion project forward, says Finance Minister Bill Mornea...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Ottawa has awarded a $15-million contract to a company to remove bulk oil from the Manolis L shipwreck off Newfoundland and Labrador. Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announ...

HALIFAX - A blood-caked Nicholas Butcher told an officer he was “sorry” minutes after he informed a 911 dispatcher he had killed his girlfriend and tried to kill himself, the law school gr...

VANCOUVER - Getting healthy again was only part of the challenge for Aly Ghazal to get back on the field with the Vancouver Whitecaps. The hard-nosed midfielder hurt his hamstring in the week prior to...

NEW YORK - A false report of a tiger in the streets of New York has caused a social media frenzy. WNBC says the New York Police Department got a call around 8:30 a.m. Thursday about a tiger in Harlem....

GOLD COAST, Australia - Canadian Christabel Nettey won gold in the women’s long jump Thursday at the Commonwealth Games. The 26-year-old from Surrey, B.C., jumped 6.84 metres on her first attemp...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Vermont restaurant owner is offering a $100 gift certificate to the person who returns a life-size cardboard cutout of himself that was stolen from an airport. Bob Conlon sai...

TORONTO - There’s been a national “spike” in donations of blood in the wake of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan that left 16 people dead and 13 others injured, the Cana...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Raed Jadallah belonged to an exclusive club - a small band of surfers who escaped the claustrophobia of blockaded Gaza by riding the waves of the Mediterranean. Now he...

ATLANTA - No one was seriously hurt in a fight involving four women in a Chik-fil-A drive-thru, but another customer who recorded the fracas says it really got crazy when one of them pointed a handgun...