Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will gradually hike its minimum hourly wage to get to $15.20 by June 2021. It’s a decision criticized by both labour and business groups. “We believe that 2021...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier moved Thursday to clarify remarks he made to a business audience about the province’s ban on hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, Stephen McNeil told th...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is working with her counterparts in Alberta and British Columbia to try to find a solution to the trade war emerging between the two provinces over the ...

BOGOTA - Colombia will tighten control of over its porous border with Venezuela as thousands of migrants fleeing a rapidly deteriorating political and economic crisis escape into the neighbouring Ande...

CLEVELAND - With their NBA title hopes fading fast, the Cavaliers got aggressive at the trading deadline. They swapped teams. Cleveland completely changed its look - and perhaps its chances of winning...

TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board will soon be stocking all its high schools with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Toronto District School Board spokesman Ryan Bird says naloxone kits...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos signed Canadian running back Pascal Lochard and American linebacker Korey Jones to contract extensions. Both players were scheduled to become free agents Tuesday. Locha...

VANCOUVER - The operators of one of the last independent movie theatres in Vancouver say their multimillion-dollar offer to buy the aging cinema has been accepted and now they have 60 days to finalize...

DULUTH, Minn. - Two classic American novels will no longer be required reading in eastern Minnesota schools because they contain racial slurs. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and R...

CALGARY - The federal government insisted Thursday that it will step in when necessary to ensure the Trans Mountain expansion project gets built as it announced a restructuring of the process that saw...