Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Serious accidents involving both rail and pipeline transport of dangerous substances like crude oil and gas increased in 2017 over the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the T...

VICTORIA - Highlights of British Columbia’s 2018-19 budget presented Tuesday: - Effective Wednesday, a tax on foreign homebuyers increases by $5,000 to $20,000 and expands from Metro Vancouver t...

HONOLULU - Hawaii’s nuclear missile scare showed that the state began testing alerts before fully developing a plan to address the ballistic missile threat and that a public outreach campaign mo...

OTTAWA - Grappling with a historic level of asylum claims, the Immigration and Refugee Board appears to be officially giving up on following regulations dictating they must hold refugee hearings withi...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ruled out the United States as a broker for peace with Israel on Tuesday, calling for an international peace conference by mid-2018 with the key goals of full U.N. ...

TORONTO - If the second time with the Philadelphia Eagles isn’t the charm for tight end Adam Zaruba, the CFL could become an option for the Canadian rugby player. The six-foot-five, 265-pound Za...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University has announced the departure of its longtime vice-president for legal affairs as it deals with fallout over a disgraced sports doctor who sexually assaul...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Judicial Council is recommending that a Quebec Superior Court justice be removed from office. A committee of the council found in a report last November that Michel Girouard atte...

MONTREAL - Electric car advocates are hoping to get a signal in next week’s federal budget that the government is prepared to support sales across the country even as Ontario overtook Quebec for...

OTTAWA - While the Royal Canadian Navy is chomping at the bit to start using the newest addition to its fleet, a senior officer says the MV Asterix has some limitations - notably that it can’t s...