Category Archives: Canadian Press

Montreal actor Steve Nash doesn’t have any law enforcement training but he plays the role well enough to pull it off onscreen. Nash says he’s become typecast for these types of roles and h...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will gradually hike its minimum hourly wage to get to $15.20 by June 2021. It’s a decision criticized by both labour and business groups. “We believe that 2021...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier moved Thursday to clarify remarks he made to a business audience about the province’s ban on hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, Stephen McNeil told th...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is working with her counterparts in Alberta and British Columbia to try to find a solution to the trade war emerging between the two provinces over the ...

BOGOTA - Colombia will tighten control of over its porous border with Venezuela as thousands of migrants fleeing a rapidly deteriorating political and economic crisis escape into the neighbouring Ande...

CLEVELAND - With their NBA title hopes fading fast, the Cavaliers got aggressive at the trading deadline. They swapped teams. Cleveland completely changed its look - and perhaps its chances of winning...

TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board will be supplying naloxone kits to more than 100 of its high schools, as cities across the country continue to deal with overdose deaths linked to opioids...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos signed Canadian running back Pascal Lochard and American linebacker Korey Jones to contract extensions. Both players were scheduled to become free agents Tuesday. Locha...

VANCOUVER - The operators of one of the last independent movie theatres in Vancouver say their multimillion-dollar offer to buy the aging cinema has been accepted and now they have 60 days to finalize...

DULUTH, Minn. - Two classic American novels will no longer be required reading in eastern Minnesota schools because they contain racial slurs. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and R...