Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier says he hopes the Atlantic provinces can land on a common minimum wage as early as next spring - but he maintains the goal will not be $15 an hour. Stephen McNeil...

Las Vegas has been a lesson in adaptation for Brad Gushue’s curling team. Gushue and teammates seemed to hit their stride Tuesday at the men’s world curling championships with a pair of wi...

OTTAWA - Trade insiders say a token win on NAFTA may soon be possible - but the substantive work is nowhere near complete. A report by Bloomberg this week said the White House wants leaders from Canad...

SANTA FE, N.M. - A man who threw a banana peel at Dave Chappelle during a 2015 performance in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is suing the comedian and a man presumed to be his bodyguard. Christian Englander...

PENTICTON, B.C. - British Columbia wants to make it harder to evict trailer park residents and give them more protection from redevelopment under proposed legislative changes. The government also want...

OTTAWA - A pension fund for Canadian military reservists is once again being flagged by Canada’s auditor general as being “problematic.” In a recent commentary on the federal governm...

BISMARCK, N.D. - “Dozens and dozens” of North Dakota Republican delegates have reimbursed the party for registration fees paid for them to attend this weekend’s state convention, the...

For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cel...

VANCOUVER - It seems Canada and Russia have a prehistoric connection of the “beautiful” but “cockroachy” kind involving a 53-million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Hungry East Coast seal populations have surged in recent decades, spurring calls for an increased seal hunt - and even a possible cull - to protect fragile caplin and northern...