Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Canadians will have to wait until at least early August - and maybe as late as early September - to legally purchase recreational marijuana. That’s the bottom line now that senators hav...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not meet with the Indian politician who has publicly accused members of Trudeau’s cabinet of being connected to the Sikh separatist movement. Despite ...

CALGARY - Higher discounts being paid for Canadian heavy oil versus American crude are having an “extraordinary impact” on the Canadian and Alberta economies, says the CEO of oilsands prod...

OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada’s biggest cities say they don’t need the federal government to pony up more money for affordable housing units - they just need the cash to move faster. The L...

NEW YORK - The sportscaster who popularized the phrase “Let’s go to the videotape!” has filed an age discrimination lawsuit over his firing from shock jock Don Imus’ radio show...

VICTORIA - Ride-hailing is on its way to British Columbia after the online services received the unanimous support of an all-party committee of the legislature on Thursday. The committee made 32 recom...

WASHINGTON - Members of the Trump administration have dropped several hints in recent days that withdrawing from NAFTA is not in their current plans - and the latest such example came Thursday. A cong...

RED DEER, Alta. - The sexual assault case against a former politician with Alberta’s Opposition United Conservatives has been put over to March 22. Don MacIntyre, who until recently represented ...

OTTAWA - Canadian food producers are concerned that the federal government may be dragging its heels on ratifying the newly rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying delay could hurt their ability to...

MONTREAL - Hydro-Quebec may consider raising its rates for energy-hogging cryptocurrency miners, the utility said Thursday as requests continue to pour in from virtual currency companies looking to es...