Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Kinder Morgan Canada has asked the National Energy Board to waive an approval condition of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion because it might delay completion of the project. Shawn Denst...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia pharmacies are now stocking free naloxone kits as part of the province’s strategy to battle opioid overdoses that currently claim nearly 60 lives a year in the province. Th...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons status of women committee appears stuck in limbo while the Liberals and Conservatives battle over who gets to chair it. “I predict a standoff for some time,” ...

TORONTO - The case against two former top political aides in Ontario accused of illegally destroying emails in the premier’s office took a serious blow Thursday when the judge ruled a key prosec...

TORONTO - Medical professionals and body artists say the practice of tattooing the eyeball, which recently left an Ottawa woman facing the prospect of vision loss, is on the rise despite its many risk...

HALIFAX - Dozens of stray dogs facing uncertain futures in storm-damaged Texas are now settling into foster homes in Nova Scotia. Volunteers with the Save A Life Canada Animal Rescue Society arrived i...

MONCTON, N.B. - The RCMP’s Labour Code trial stemming from a New Brunswick shooting rampage has laid bare the tensions and “toxic culture” within Canada’s national police force...

TORONTO - Ontario drivers could soon get their vehicle emissions tested remotely. A $30 fee was scrapped in last year’s provincial budget for the much-maligned Drive Clean program that tests emi...

OTTAWA - The federal Finance Department says the government ran a $100-million deficit through the first four months of the current fiscal year, a significant decline from the same period last year. B...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Tom Hickey says he feels safer on the roads almost anywhere else in North America - Toronto, New York, L.A. “It’s insane,” said Hickey, president of Wedgwood...