Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government will spend $284 million over the next five years to enforce new laws protecting habitat wherever fish are present, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc says. A number of ...

VANCOUVER - Technology is allowing researchers in British Columbia to study blooms of jellyfish and their impact on the ocean in a whole new way. University of B.C. oceanography Prof. Brian Hunt and u...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s legislature reopened on Tuesday for its last session before the fall’s provincial election and, on the same day, a new poll indicated almost 70 per cent of francophone ...

VICTORIA - Allowing people to sue for pain and suffering in car accidents has been viewed as a fundamental principle in British Columbia, but that changed Tuesday when the government joined CanadaR...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX’s big new rocket blasted off Tuesday on its first test flight, carrying a red electric sports car aiming for an endless road trip past Mars. The Falcon Heavy rose f...

MALE, Maldives - Three Maldives Supreme Court justices on Tuesday annulled their own order to free a group of imprisoned opposition politicians after two of the court’s justices were arrested am...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - A former Palestinian intelligence chief and the head of the West Bank bar association are suing the Palestinian self-rule government after a purported whistleblower a...

Monday’s Games NHL Toronto 7 Anaheim 4 Nashville 5 N.Y. Islanders 4 (OT) Dallas 2 N.Y. Rangers 1 Edmonton 6 Tampa Bay 2 — AHL Tucson 4 San Jose 3 (SO) — NBA Detroit 111 Portland 91 W...

MONTREAL - Quebec must change its policy that systematically denies parents the right to accompany their children during urgent medical air evacuations, the Canadian and Quebec paediatric societies sa...

About four in 10 young Canadians have sent a sext and more than six in 10 have received one, suggests a new report, which also puts a spotlight on the unauthorized sharing of sexual photographs among ...