Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A male Acadia University student accused of sexually assaulting a female student has failed in his bid to stop the school’s Equity Office from investigating the allegation. In a decisi...

HALIFAX - In modern-day Halifax, pirates try to settle their spats with lawsuits, not swords. But two competing groups of grown men both calling themselves the “Pirates of Halifax” have fa...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is facing pressure on several fronts to lead an international ban on the use of autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots” that some fear could resul...

HALIFAX - Although a cost is yet to be attached to a new effluent treatment facility for the Northern Pulp mill, Nova Scotia’s infrastructure minister said Thursday that it’s unlikely prov...

TORONTO - A photo of a hockey player breastfeeding her baby between periods has riled social media, and that uproar has some lactation experts bemoaning how such a natural act continues to be sexualiz...

OTTAWA - Parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Frechette’s latest report on the Liberal government’s infrastructure spending program highlights further delays in the spending plan. Here ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has just regaled another audience with a tall tale involving Canada, this one about a conversation involving the Keystone XL pipeline he insists never happened. Spo...

VANCOUVER - An investigation that British Columbia’s police watchdog acknowledges took an “unfortunate” length of time has cleared an officer in the shooting death of a fugitive gunm...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says Canada will continue to have trouble moving grain across the country unless more oil pipelines are built. Notley says moving oil by rail means th...

ATLANTA - Canada’s Kia Nurse has won the NCAA Division 1 defensive player of the year award, awarded by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. The Connecticut Huskies senior led one o...