Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A Halifax-area father has been charged after a toddler was found alone locked in the back seat of a vehicle with the windows up, in distress. “The child was very upset,” Halifax ...

VENICE, Italy - The Venice Film Festival is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new movies vying for attention, awards and acclaim. Thanks to its late-...

OTTAWA - Despite the fact it hasn’t exactly dominated headlines, the federal New Democrat leadership race helped the third-place party more than triple its membership ranks since March, numbers ...

CALGARY - Researchers say a warning line intended to get hockey players to keep their heads up around the boards has the opposite effect. The orange metre-wide line painted on the ice along the base o...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - China shops, beware - a bull is on the loose in British Columbia’s southern Interior. RCMP say the 635 kilogram bull escaped last week from the BC Livestock Yard in Kamloops, ab...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre says a large storm system that’s tracking towards Atlantic Canada is expected to remain well offshore, but up to three-metre swells are expected in some a...

WASHINGTON - American consumers give today’s economy the highest grade in more than 16 years. The Conference Board said Tuesday that consumers’ assessment of current economic conditions hi...

MONTREAL - Airbnb and the Quebec government announced an agreement Tuesday that will see the home-sharing platform begin collecting a lodging tax on short-term rentals in the province as of October. I...

HALIFAX - More than two years after a mentally ill Nova Scotia man killed his mother and two grandparents, a team of mental-health professionals argued Tuesday he should be granted unescorted day pass...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices climbed higher in June with gains that are eclipsing income growth - creating affordability pressures for would-be buyers. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-...