Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - With the clock ticking toward potential job action at Canada Post, lawyer and author William Kaplan was appointed Friday to seek an end to the months-long labour dispute at the Crown agency. ...

DETROIT - The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation’s highways. A new proposal Friday would impose a nationwide limit by elec...

WINNIPEG - For years, people in the tiny northern Manitoba community of Norway House Cree Nation gossiped and whispered about why David Tait Jr. and Leon Swanson didn’t look much like their pare...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $1.0 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year, down from a surplus of $5.0 billion in the same period last year though “broadly consisten...

CALGARY - Taylor Reed has waited patiently to face his former Hamilton Tiger-Cats teammates. The six-foot, 241-pound linebacker spent two seasons in Hamilton before signing with Calgary Stampeders as ...

MCADAM, N.B. - The cause of more than 100 earthquakes that shook homes and rattled nerves in a New Brunswick village earlier this year may remain a mystery, says a seismologist. Stephen Halchuk at Ear...

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration wants all U.S. blood centres to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation’s blood supply from the mosquito-borne vi...

Canada has risen to fourth in the FIFA women’s soccer ranking on the strength of its bronze-medal performance at the Rio Olympics. The Canadian team gained 93 ranking points and moved up six spo...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Dave Julian says serial arson charges laid against two volunteer firefighters he worked alongside in rural Cape Breton came as a shock - but it turns out the cases aren’t as rare ...

Despite everything that Serena Williams has won and done, her sense of self can still fluctuate based on the outcome of a particular match. Doesn’t always seem to matter that she owns a record-t...