Category Archives: Canadian Press

Surprising growth surge forces forecasters to revisit economic predictions
OTTAWA - A surprisingly powerful performance from the Canadian economy is pushing some forecasters to change their outlooks - starting with their predictions for Wednesday’s central bank rate an...
Sep 08, 2017

Cenovus Energy's $975M Pelican Lake sale a 'first step' to reducing debt burden
CALGARY - Investors and analysts offered measured praise Tuesday as Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) delivered the first of four key asset sales it has promised to help pay for its $17.7-billion purchase of m...
Sep 08, 2017

Brad Trost seeking to take Tories to court over alleged leak of party list
OTTAWA - Failed Conservative leadership candidate Brad Trost is seeking an Ontario court’s opinion on whether his campaign ought to have been fined for leaking the party’s membership list....
Sep 08, 2017
Commission to seek input on representation for Acadians, African Nova Scotians
HALIFAX - The first African Nova Scotian woman elected to the provincial legislature says she’s skeptical a commission will come up with anything substantive on electoral representation for Acad...
Sep 08, 2017

Charges in fatal Radiohead stage collapse stayed over lengthy trial delays
TORONTO - Charges stemming from a fatal Radiohead concert stage collapse in 2012 were stayed Tuesday when a judge ruled the justice system had failed in allowing the case to take far too long to come ...
Sep 08, 2017

New Brunswick judge delays Oland murder hearing because of unresolved issues
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - There are many issues that need to be resolved in the retrial of accused murderer Dennis Oland before a date can even be set for it, the judge says. Crown prosecutors and lawyers fo...
Sep 08, 2017
N.B., Sask. premiers, Alberta minister blast regulator's handling of Energy East
CALGARY - Canadian politicians whose jurisdictions could benefit from a proposed multibillion-dollar oil pipeline are accusing the country’s energy regulator of creating uncertainty about the fu...
Sep 08, 2017

Space rock that caused flash over West could have weighed 10 tonnes: expert
At least one expert believes a bright flash that lit up the sky over parts of Western Canada on Monday night was likely caused by a space rock that weighed up to 10 tonnes when it barrelled into the E...
Sep 08, 2017
Tilray to build $30 million EU cannabis production operation in Portugal
CALGARY - Canadian cannabis producer Tilray says it will invest 20 million euros (about C$29.5 million) in a medical cannabis operation in Portugal after winning federal licences there to import canna...
Sep 08, 2017
Drug users say methadone formula switch contributed to B.C.'s opioid crisis
VANCOUVER - Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated treatment drug they say has...
Sep 08, 2017