Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Aug. 17 --- BARCELONA ATTACK KILLS 12, INJURES 80: A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone Thursday in Barcelona’s histo...

HALIFAX - Hundreds of Nova Scotia families have registered for the promised expansion of pre-primary classes for four-year-olds, but there are still no firm numbers of trained staff available just wee...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Nine men affiliated with a Toronto-area Hells Angels chapter have been arrested by a new police task force targeting P.E.I.’s growing outlaw motorcycle gang presence. Police say ...

OTTAWA - Despite their agonizing first third of the 2017 season, the Ottawa Redblacks can put themselves in playoff contention in the CFL East with a win at winless Hamilton on Friday. But with a desp...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board says a six-to-eight-second absence from the controls of a tug boat caused the sinking of another tug off the east coast of Vancouver Island. A safety b...

A Canadian man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for his role in a smuggling operation that sent more than $130 million worth of drugs between the United States and Canada. Prose...

HANNA, Alta. - RCMP say three children who died when a semi-trailer truck collided with an SUV northeast of Calgary Wednesday were all from the United States. “The family is from Washington Stat...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Former St. John’s mayor Andy Wells says he’s milder now than that time he called his archrival “a stupid old woman.” It was the sort of biting put down...

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says there are no reports of Canadians among those killed and injured in a terror attack in Barcelona. Someone drove a van into a crowd on the popular Las Ramblas touris...

OTTAWA - The Justice Department wants to know what Canadians think of changing some of the former Conservative government’s controversial tough-on-crime sentencing legacy - including mandatory m...