Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Cynthia Nixon fans who agree with the former “Sex and the City” star that marijuana should be legalized can support her campaign for governor of New York by entering a contest t...

HALIFAX - As the number of reported Lyme disease cases in Canada continues to rise, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health is cautioning against spraying lawns with pesticides to protect ...

Globe-trotting food chronicler Anthony Bourdain has received several posthumous Emmy nominations on Thursday. Bourdain’s CNN series, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” got six nods, ...

MONTREAL - The fate of the long-beleaguered Montreal World Film Festival is unclear as Quebec’s Revenue Department targets the event and its founder for unpaid taxes. Revenu Quebec filed a motio...

REGINA - Government officials from Canada’s four western provinces plan to hold a teleconference next week to discuss standardized trucking regulations. Trucking safety has been in the spotlight...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service is investigating allegations a Vancouver-area family feed a mother black bear and her cub. Conservation Officer Lonnie Schoenthal says...

OTTAWA - Roughly half of Canadians know little to nothing about the perils of sports-related concussive injuries, nor where to turn to find information on how to avoid falling victim to them, suggests...

TORONTO - Henoc Muamba has emerged as one of the CFL’s top defensive players, but he didn’t always enjoy the physical nature of football. In fact early on, the Montreal Alouettes star line...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Hundreds of tourists who booked coveted overnight trips on tribal land deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon will have to reschedule after heavy flooding forced evacuations and shut ...

EDMONTON - Canadian scientists are part of an international team that has for the first time tracked a tiny, high-energy twist of matter to its source in deep space. University of Alberta astronomer G...