Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Opposition critics fired back Thursday after Premier Stephen McNeil said previous Nova Scotia governments did “zero” to address doctor shortages. McNeil defended his government&#...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s environment minister says he’s “seriously considering” enacting a province-wide ban on plastic shopping bags - a move that would make it the first provi...

Local news fans dismayed by the closing of the daily newspaper in Orillia, Ont., are pledging by the dozens to donate $5 a month to a just-launched news website called OrilliaMatters.com, part of a gr...

VANCOUVER - WestJet (TSX:WJA) has filed an appeal after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to throw out a proposed class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of fostering a corporate cul...

HALIFAX - Christopher Garnier, who strangled Nova Scotia police officer Catherine Campbell and then used a green bin to dispose of her body, is appealing his conviction. In December, a 12-member jury ...

VANCOUVER - A defence lawyer for a former British Columbia government communications director says his client had “an enthusiasm for recklessness” but accepts responsibility for partisan w...

RATON, N.M. - Andra Cobb was frantic when she called for help, telling an emergency operator that a helicopter she was riding in with her father, longtime partner and others had crashed in a remote pa...

BILLINGS, Mont. - A former leader of the Montana House of Representatives who once supported funding for an anti-drug campaign was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday for his central role in a me...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto is stepping up efforts to lure top global scholars by slashing tuition fees for most international PhD students. Starting this fall, the university says most intern...

EDMONTON - Scientists have figured out how hydraulic fracking causes earthquakes in northern Alberta, but they have a way to go before they can use that knowledge to predict if it will cause temblors ...