Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - As Air Canada Flight 624 made its final, ill-fated approach toward Halifax’s main airport in a raging blizzard, no one in the cockpit was checking the plane’s altitude or distanc...

HALIFAX - Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil fended off multiple attacks on his record Thursday as Nova Scotia’s major-party leaders clashed over health care, education and the economy during the fi...

OTTAWA - The foremost constitutional authority in Canada once argued that random breath testing - similar to what the Liberals proposed to crack down on impaired driving - would infringe Charter right...

Nine stories in the news for Thursday, May 18 --- CANADA BACKS CALL FOR MAGNITSKY ACT Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government has agreed to create a so-called Magnitsky Act to e...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A teen gunman who killed four people at a home and in a school in northern Saskatchewan told police he had regrets about the shooting. Dayne and Drayden Fontaine were killed at th...

Ottawa is completely within its rights to impose a carbon tax on any province because protecting the environment falls under federal jurisdiction, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Thursday....

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has hired a former top public servant to study options for more robust oversight of Canada’s border agency - the latest sign the agency could soon have new people...

TORONTO - Canada’s money-laundering watchdog is studying the use of crowdfunding platforms by suspected terrorists and says in an internal study that the reporting protocol poses a “signif...

OTTAWA - Celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary dropped out of the Conservative leadership race and pledged to back Quebec MP Maxime Bernier’s campaign all the way to decision day, but the du...

CALGARY - A judge has rejected a Calgary man’s argument that he acted in self-defence after years of domestic abuse when he strangled his wife and entombed her body in their basement. Justice Ro...