Category Archives: Canada
Gasoline prices expected to continue to rise over Labour Day long weekend
CALGARY - Average Canadian gasoline prices are set to soar this weekend after already jumping nearly 10 cents per litre since Hurricane Harvey roared ashore in Texas a week ago. Analysts say the hikes...
Sep 01, 2017
August snowfall inspires surprise, resignation along Quebec-Labrador border
LABRADOR CITY, N.L. - The final day of August felt more like winter along the Quebec-Labrador border - it snowed. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary tweeted photos of snow collecting along a highway ...
Sep 01, 2017
Police hunting for suspects after fatal shooting in Toronto mall
TORONTO - A young man killed in a northwest Toronto mall was chased into the centre and shot dead amid a throng of shoppers, police said Friday as they searched for as many as four people in connectio...
Sep 01, 2017
Pizza pan helps save endangered piping plover eggs on Prince Edward Island
BRACKLEY, P.E.I. - A pair of endangered piping plovers whose eggs were threatened by the tide at a P.E.I. beach had an unlikely savour - a pizza pan. Kerry-Lynn Atkinson, a resource management officer...
Sep 01, 2017
Eight stories in the news for today, Sept. 1
Eight stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 1 --- ROUND TWO OF NAFTA TALKS BEGIN TODAY IN MEXICO A second round of NAFTA negotiations begin today in a country that has long served as Donald Trump̵...
Sep 01, 2017
Front-row seat to history: National news agency The Canadian Press marks 100 years
The Canadian Press, the national news service that was created during the First World War to bring home stories from the European front - and went on to become the country’s go-to, real-time sou...
Sep 01, 2017
Fentanyl screening program in Vancouver expands to overdose prevention sites
VANCOUVER - A pilot project that allows Vancouver drug users to test substances for the deadly opioid fentanyl is being expanded in an effort to reduce overdose deaths. Vancouver Coastal Health says t...
Aug 31, 2017
Calgary MP Darshan Kang resigns from Liberal caucus
Calgary MP Darshan Kang resigned late Thursday from the Liberal caucus after sexual harassment allegations from a second woman became public. In a written statement, Kang said he’s leaving the g...
Aug 31, 2017
The Beast finally out: Fort McMurray wildfire deemed extinguished 15 months later
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A wildfire that forced 80,000 people in northern Alberta to flee more than a year ago has finally been extinguished. Wildfire information officer Lynn Daina says the Horse River...
Aug 31, 2017
National Energy Board to hold hearings on detailed Trans Mountain pipeline route
VANCOUVER - The National Energy Board will hold hearings in British Columbia and Alberta to review proposals by Trans Mountain for its detailed pipeline corridor through the two provinces. The board w...
Aug 31, 2017