Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The labour market expanded for a ninth-consecutive month to register its longest job-creating streak since before the financial crisis nine years ago, Statistics Canada said Friday. The incre...

MOBILE, N.L. - Students in Newfoundland are drinking bottled water amid concerns about how close their high school’s well is to an adjacent graveyard. They attend Mobile Central High School, abo...

Seven stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 8 --- MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES OFF MEXICO A massive 8.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Mexico’s southern coast late Thursday, toppling houses in Chiap...

SUDBURY, Ont. - The man at the centre of bribery allegations against two Ontario Liberals believed they were offering him opportunities within the party and not government appointments, court heard Fr...

CALGARY - The father of a disabled woman who weighed just over 50 pounds when she died has testified he told his ex-wife they should take their daughter to see a doctor, but she would only say she wou...

TORONTO - Search crews say they have found a test model of the Avro Arrow, an advanced Canadian fighter jet that was controversially scrapped in 1959, on the floor of Lake Ontario. OEX Recovery Group,...

CALGARY - The future of the Energy East pipeline has been thrown into question after TransCanada Corp. announced it wants to suspend for now its application to build the $15.7-billion project. In a st...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s minority NDP government is set to table a throne speech outlining its political blueprint after months of tension, upheaval and backroom machinations following a sp...

CALGARY - An Alberta man is appealing his conviction and sentence for the murders of a father, the man’s two-year-old daughter and a woman. Derek Saretzky, 24, was convicted of three counts of f...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is suggesting the federal government could take over the Port of Churchill as one way to help revive the subarctic town’s broken rail line and economy...