Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Two environmental groups are slamming the recent agreement allowing Nova Scotia to use coal-fired electrical plants beyond the new federal deadline to phase them out by 2030. The federal-pro...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has been quietly looking at the possibility of adding a third official language: Sign language. Raising signing to the level of official language would be a major recog...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are set to light the National Christmas Tree on Thursday evening during a ceremony where he’s expected to share a holiday messag...

VICTORIA - The Canada Border Services Agency has seized a package containing enough fentanyl that Victoria police say could cause a potential 725,000 overdoses. The package intercepted at Vancouver...

NASSAU, Bahamas - Not only did Tiger Woods return to golf Thursday, he returned to being Tiger. Just not for long. Hardly looking like a player who had not competed in 466 days, Woods ran off three st...

TORONTO - Ontario will hire more judges, Crown attorneys, duty counsel and court staff to try to shorten the time it takes for criminal cases to get to trial and make sure people aren’t awaiting...

RED DEER, Alta. - A 20-year-old Calgary man is no longer facing a charge of dangerous driving. Kunal Anand was charged on April 10 after a video was recorded on a dash cam showing a speeding car squee...

NEW YORK - Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” has been named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. The group announced their picks Thursday on Tw...

CALGARY - A Calgary woman wept through much of her initial interview with police before she was charged in the death of her seven-year-old son. Tamara Lovett, 47, is on trial charged with failing to p...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Democrats failed Thursday to override the Republican governor’s veto of $215 million to help the financially struggling Chicago Public Schools with pension payments ...