Category Archives: Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES - The American Film Institute has cancelled plans to screen writer-director Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” for students this week amid controversies surrounding a ...

Cody Ceci has had a taste, and now he wants more. He wants more points, more time on the power play, all the things that come with being a top-level offensive defenceman. Ceci signed a new two-year de...

Researchers have confirmed the widespread release of ancient carbon from melting Arctic permafrost in what could be the lit fuse on a climate-change bomb. A paper published this week in Nature Geoscie...

TORONTO - Royal Bank CEO David McKay says the lender is “closely monitoring” the real estate markets in Vancouver and Toronto, where home prices have been climbing at a breakneck pace. ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The Canadian Press erroneously reported on Aug. 16 that British Columbia has brought in a tax on homebuyers in Metro Vancouver who are non-residents of the province. In fact, the tax...

A class-action lawsuit launched by former inmates of a London, Ont., detention centre over the conditions of the facility has been given the green light to proceed. Superior Court Justice A. Duncan Gr...

Halifax police say they have opened a murder investigation after a body was found in a stolen car in a church cemetery. RCMP say officers received a report of the missing vehicle from North Preston ju...

OTTAWA - Fixing the problems with the federal government’s new payroll system will cost more than $25 million, although the total won’t be known for weeks, a top official at Public Works a...

CALGARY - A court appearance for a man charged in the deaths of a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter has been put over for two weeks. Edward Downey, who faces two counts of first-degree murd...

KABUL - A brazen, hours-long militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan ended early Thursday after at least 13 people were killed and dozens wounded in the assault on the sprawling camp...