Category Archives: Canadian Press

WINNIPEG - The federal government has issued an ultimatum to the owners of a broken rail line that has cut off the town of Churchill in northern Manitoba - fix it within 30 days or face an $18.8-milli...

KEY LAKE, Sask. - The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission says there was a small propane explosion in the acid plant sulphur furnace at Cameco’s Key Lake mill earlier this week. The commission sa...

MONCTON, N.B. - An RCMP corporal who was friends with three Mounties killed in New Brunswick says he has been rebuked for publicly calling on the force’s top brass to start listening to its offi...

HALIFAX - Nearly two dozen partygoers were arrested after a series of off-campus celebrations for Dalhousie University’s homecoming weekend overran a Halifax neighbourhood. Police estimate up to...

VANCOUVER - Ottawa’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline was made on a broad base of evidence, a lawyer for Alberta’s attorney general has told the Federal Court of Appeal. Dor...

TORONTO - Globe-trotters who deliberately flout government travel advisories are actively placing themselves both in harm’s way and beyond the reach of most traditional rescue efforts if disaste...

ALMA, Que. - Voters in the Quebec riding of Lac-Saint-Jean will have no shortage of options when they choose their next MP in a federal byelection on Oct. 23. The four major parties are making a stron...

OTTAWA - Any hope the Liberals had of a quiet Thanksgiving break melted away quickly this week, even with MPs back in their ridings and all the party leaders politicking in distant places. The hullaba...

VANCOUVER - A former communications director for British Columbia’s previous Liberal government has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in connection with a vote-getting scandal. Brian Bonney wa...

CALGARY - A shift in global oil markets sentiment is under way, replacing decades of scarcity fears with confidence in surpluses, capping oil prices and forcing changes in the way the industry works, ...