Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Quebec is cancelling its plan to distribute welfare cheques to asylum seekers at Montreal’s downtown convention centre. The province’s Employment Department announced today it w...

VANCOUVER - Blake Nill remembers trying to get away from the office during the hectic university football season to see his young children before they went to bed. Unfortunately it didn’t happen...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal is allowing British Columbia to be an intervener in a legal fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but with some conditions. Several First Nations an...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 29 --- FREELAND CALLS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST RECKLESS: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says North Korea’s latest provocative missile...

MONTREAL - Canada’s two largest airlines have cancelled scores of flights, affecting thousands of passengers, due to the massive hurricane that has flooded parts of Texas. Calgary-based WestJet ...

MONTREAL - A well-known left-wing activist who was arrested at a Quebec City demonstration and then released has been rearrested. Quebec City police say in a news release an arrest warrant was issued ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick RCMP say a 40-year-old woman has been charged in the ongoing investigation of outlaw motorcycle gangs in the province. Marie Antonette Bugay was arrested Tuesday and later ...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - The future of lithium-ion battery longevity - a key component in a world without fossil fuels - may lie in an unassuming, bunker-style building in a Halifax-area industrial park. Dow...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national housing agency says new regulations introduced last fall decreased the size of the country’s insured mortgage market by about 33 per cent year-over-year in the s...

Two Ontario men are on their way to Houston to help a family member who has been forced from her home by flooding in the hurricane-battered city. Bill Hamilton and Pat Quirk left Guelph, Ont., on Mond...