Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - (McNeil-Harris-Resigns) Premier Stephen McNeil says his campaign communications director resigned because he felt “under attack.” Last week the Tories raised questions about the ...

OTTAWA - When municipal officials were told last year about new tools to help them map the risk of flooding in their communities, they immediately raised red flags, suggesting they wanted no part of i...

OTTAWA - Sen. Don Meredith, his name now inexorably linked with his sexual relationship with a teenage girl, declared Tuesday he would resign his Senate seat, short-circuiting what could have been a h...

REGINA - Manitoba’s energy minister is recharging the idea of building an east-west power transmission grid and says the federal government needs to help. Cliff Cullen told the Energy Council of...

FORT DIX, N.J. - A young comic book aficionado is sharing his passion with the military. Ten-year-old Carl Scheckel organized a campaign that gathered roughly 3,000 comic books that he donated last mo...

VANCOUVER - Growing up playing youth basketball in Nova Scotia, Matthew van Bommel didn’t think much about the scorekeepers sitting courtside. As long as the point totals were correct, there was...

SEATTLE - For weeks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pushed ahead with plans for his re-election campaign despite claims by men he sexually abused them decades ago when they were teenagers, allegations Murray ...

MILAN - Former U.S. President Barack Obama says he’s “confident that the United States will continue to move in the right direction” on climate change despite his successor’s p...

The last time Toronto FC played in Columbus, the club was on an emotional roller-coaster. Defensive anchor Drew Moor had been sidelined earlier in the week by a heart irregularity. And coach Greg Vann...

EDMONTON - Research into the largest dinosaur eggs ever discovered took decades to hatch. A farmer in China unearthed the eggs, roughly half a metre long, some 30 years ago. A scientific paper on the ...