Category Archives: Canadian Press

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - The 40 passengers and crew members of a plane that crashed in western Pennsylvania after it was hijacked during the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago have been honoured with a reading o...

HOLLYWOOD, Ala. - After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation’s largest federal utility is preparing to sell the pro...

ISTANBUL - About 40 prominent academics and authors from around the world are urging Turkey’s government to end what they say is the persecution of the country’s own writers and professors...

GIJANG, Korea, Republic Of - Canada matched its best-ever result in an international tournament with a silver medal at the women’s baseball World Cup on Sunday. Ayami Sato pitched a complete gam...

TORONTO - Scotiabank and the Royal Bank of Canada say they aren’t providing accounts to companies associated with the marijuana industry, leaving some business owners scrambling to find alternat...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s medical regulator wants more stringent rules on how physicians prescribe opioid painkillers and other drugs to improve the safety of patients. The College of Physicians and ...

A Canadian Judicial Council panel is holding a hearing in Calgary on whether Robin Camp should be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge oversee...

Public hearings that consider whether a judge should be removed from the bench, such as the current one involving Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, are rare. The Canadian Judicial Council receives mor...

EDMONTON - The challenge makes turning bitumen into oil seem like the easy part. Faced with reclaiming open-pit mines that were once thriving wetlands, Suncor and Syncrude have been trying to do what&...

Five things to know about Lyme disease: 1. Blacklegged ticks become infected with Lyme disease bacteria by feeding on infected wild animals, such as deer, birds and rodents. 2. Infected ticks can spre...