Category Archives: Canadian Press

MEXICO CITY - Forget the worm at the bottom of your bottle of mescal. Mexican environmental inspectors have found whole boas and iguanas stuffed into bottles of mezcal at a market in the southern stat...

TORONTO - Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews is inching closer to a return to the Toronto lineup. When that will be remains anyone’s guess. The 20-year-old took part in his second straight full ...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia woman who alleged she was gang raped by British sailors is suing the U.K. government, arguing it should pay damages for harm she suffered in the incident. Four men were origina...

MEXICO CITY - Forget the worm at the bottom of your bottle of mescal. Mexican environmental inspectors have found whole boas and iguanas stuffed into bottles of mezcal at a market in the southern stat...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is contributing $250,000 to a Cannabis Education and Awareness Fund and seeking members of the public to be part of an advisory committee on how the money is...

HALIFAX - A Metis chief is calling for the reversal of the East Coast Music Association’s decision to pull a Nova Scotia nominee from consideration for an Indigenous artist award amid questions ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador aims to shape up physically and fiscally with a throne speech that opposition critics swiftly dismissed as a “stay-the-course” political ...

MONTREAL - A lawyer for an ex-cardiologist who murdered his two children argued in court Tuesday his client should not have to serve 17 years in prison before becoming eligible to apply for parole. Gu...

WINNIPEG - Criminal charges that include fraud have been stayed against a former National Hockey League player agent who has died. An obituary in the Winnipeg Free Press says 54-year-old Stacey Don Mc...

EDMONTON - A baseball legend who helped the Toronto Blue Jays capture back-to-back World Series titles in the early 1990s is stepping up to the plate to try to keep Edmonton’s river valley ballp...