Category Archives: Canada

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A new premier who promises to get things done has been chosen by the Nunavut legislature after its members removed the old one from office with a vote of non-confidence. “I wi...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The company behind the 2016 oil spill that fouled the North Saskatchewan River and threatened the water supply of Prince Albert and other communities wants to build new pipeline...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton man convicted of stealing memorial plaques that honour Canadian war heroes is going to jail. Romelo Woolf has been sentenced to 11 months and fined more than $22,000. He stole t...

Toronto doctors have successfully transplanted lungs from deceased donors with hepatitis C into patients in need of the life-saving organs, followed by treatment to prevent them from becoming infected...

VICTORIA - He was on the FBI’s most wanted list for robbing banks and often on Canada’s best seller lists for his literature. Stephen Reid, the bank robber-author, has died after being adm...

NANAIMO, B.C. - A New Democrat member of the British Columbia legislature is running for the mayor’s job in Nanaimo, potentially upsetting the delicate balance of power for the provincial govern...

TORONTO - Even the iconic Eaton Centre mall wasn’t a refuge from the rain as a storm rolled through downtown Toronto on Wednesday afternoon. Numerous people posted videos on Twitter as water pou...

VICTORIA - In a story about plastic recycling published Tuesday, The Canadian Press erroneously said that some of the plastic to be recycled included six-pack rings and squeeze tubes. In fact, six-pac...

ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. - An American man charged in the slaying of a fellow hunting mate in northwestern Quebec over the weekend is due back in court in late August. John B. Tompkins, 50, was charged Mon...

VICTORIA - The wife of one of two missing British Columbia sailors says her husband’s dream voyage has become a nightmare as days pass without word from him. Leah Bliss said her friends and psyc...