Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - When Toronto Maple Leafs centre Nazem Kadri was in the midst of recording just two points over a 20-game stretch earlier this season - including 12 straight outings where he was held entirel...

OTTAWA - Mista Wasis recalls dreaming of the family he could barely remember after the government forced him from his community as a child and into a non-Indigenous home during the ’60s Scoop. &...

MONTREAL - The Quebec and federal governments announced Friday the implementation of a new partnership to provide funding for the agriculture and agri-food sector. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrenc...

OTTAWA - Canada is sending just over $8 million to agencies helping Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as they prepare for monsoon storms. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says aid ...

NEW YORK - Last fall, on her ranch in southern Oregon, Kim Novak found herself doing what she calls “my own Me Too painting.” Novak, who turned 85 on Tuesday, had recently broken her left ...

VANCOUVER - The governor of Washington says his state is “allied” with British Columbia in questioning whether the Trans Mountain pipeline should be expanded. The project poses a threat to...

MOSCOW - Former NHL forward Ilya Kovalchuk says he wants to return to the league this summer and play there for “several more years.” Kovalchuk tells Russian state sports channel Match TV ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax-area navy sailor convicted of sexually assaulting a woman he met over Facebook has won a new trial because of ineffective legal representation. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal over...

VANCOUVER - A $1.6 billion contract has been awarded for construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam in northeastern British Columbia, just three months after the province’s NDP government relu...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says it’s mind-boggling that grain shipments have been delayed again by rail backlogs this year. Moe told the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipali...