Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - The Quebec government faced strong opposition as public consultations began Tuesday on its bill seeking to increase the legal age of cannabis consumption and ban it from all public areas. J...

INNISFAIL, Alta. - The RCMP is looking for kids who have great ideas for names starting with an M. The latest 13 German shepherd puppies born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail, Al...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday approved a major public lands bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and creates ...

OTTAWA - The time-honoured tenet of solicitor-client privilege - usually discussed in courtrooms and law-school textbooks - has become a central point of debate in a political controversy over whether...

OTTAWA - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada is involved in allegations of improper government influence IN two major cases: the prosecutions of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman over allegations he leake...

HALIFAX - The court-appointed monitor overseeing the search for the $260 million owed to clients of the faltering QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange says it recently found more than $900,000 in digita...

HALIFAX - More penalties have been handed out in an ugly brawl that cast a pall over university men’s hockey in Atlantic Canada. Hardest hit were the head coaches - Acadia University’s Dar...

QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec government is following through on an election promise guaranteed to win the hearts of the province’s schoolchildren: more recess. Education Minister Jean-Fr...

MADISON, Wis. - Republican concerns that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is too controversial to honour as a black leader doomed a resolution recognizing Black History Month in the state Assem...

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 4-10. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership. 1. “The Grammy Awards,” CBS, 19.88 million. 2. “The Big Ban...