Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 2 --- CENSUS 2016: SINGLE, SAME-SEX AND CHILDLESS: Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are bloss...

BROOKLIN, Maine - A 44-acre (18-hectare) saltwater farm in Maine where E.B. White penned “Charlotte’s Web” is up for sale for $3.7 million. The Brooklin home where White lived until ...

TORONTO - Being the CFL rushing leader will earn Jerome Messam a physical homecoming. The six-foot-three, 255-pound Toronto native leads the Calgary Stampeders into BMO Field on Thursday night against...

VICTORIA - An insurance company that refused to pay for a British Columbia man’s emergency heart surgery has been ordered by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Victoria to cover the US$180,000 bill. ...

VANCOUVER - The typical price of a home in Metro Vancouver surpassed $1 million for the first time last July, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said on the one-year anniversary of British Col...

Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. It’s...

MONTREAL - World No. 4 Stan Wawrinka is pulling out of the upcoming Rogers Cup in Montreal due to a knee injury that he says has been bothering him all season. Wawrinka said on his Facebook page that ...

HALIFAX - Driving an electric car along Canada’s rugged East Coast is about to get a lot easier. Electric utilities in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are moving ahead with plans to install m...

CALGARY - Rick George, former CEO of Suncor Energy and a pioneer of Canada’s oilsands industry, has died at the age of 67 after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. George, who died Tuesday, is...

CALGARY - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have hired June Jones as assistant head coach. Jones has 34 years of coaching experience at the NCAA, CFL and NFL levels. He will be looked to help Ticats head coach ...