Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - What’s in a name? Lots of jokes, apparently, if it’s the moniker for the revamped North American Free Trade Agreement. While NAFTA rolled off the tongue and became almost as famil...

HALIFAX - Financial controls remain a problem “year after year” at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, where a lack of guidance led to a bill of more than $8,400 for a Christmas party, says ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is ditching its privatized model for road testing and will administer road exams directly to new drivers. Transportation Minister Brian Mason says it’s the best solution to fi...

MONTREAL - The future of the Parti Quebecois, long the pillar of the sovereigntist movement, is shaky after it suffered an unprecedented defeat at the polls Monday. Eric Belanger, professor of politic...

WINNIPEG - The father of a woman whose body was discovered at a recycling depot says the family is devastated by her death. Mary Madeline Yellowback, 33, was a mother of six from God’s River, Ma...

GENEVA - Alibaba founder Jack Ma said Tuesday that the trade dispute between the U.S. and China could last 20 years. But he expressed hope that a solution could be reached as a trade war would “...

AGASSIZ, B.C. - Cpl. Mike Rail says there is no need to exaggerate an RCMP fish story on the rescue of a 2.4-metre sturgeon from a landlocked pond near the Fraser River in British Columbia. He says an...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The struggle for control of the New Brunswick legislature moved to the courts Tuesday with recounts set for two ridings - including one Saint John district where a lawyer for the Pr...

OTTAWA - Parliament has formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people. The Senate voted una...

WASHINGTON - From deep within the pantheon of diplomacy that is the United Nations came hardly a warning shot - it was a rocket-propelled rhetorical grenade aimed directly at Canada, with a concussive...