Category Archives: Canada

YARMOUTH, N.S. - Social media users are casting their “likes” for photos of exotic lobsters in an online contest that has a multitude of multicoloured, oversized and&nb...

WINNIPEG - An Air Canada flight made an unscheduled landing in Winnipeg after the airline says the cabin became too warm. Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says in an email that the Airbus A321 was ...

SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan First Nation says it will receive $4.5 million in compensation for a dispute with the federal government that dates back to the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. The Specific Claims...

HALIFAX - Andy Cook knows the Hells Angels, and what they bring with them. The bespectacled RCMP corporal has crossed paths with Canada’s most notorious outlaw biker gang before, during sti...

MONTREAL - Rocco Sollecito, a reputed Mafia leader in Montreal who was murdered last May, was denied a public commemoration Mass in Italy on Tuesday due to his infamy. An archbishop and a lo...

TORONTO - A list of The Canadian Press business newsmakers of the year, as determined in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country: 2016: The Foreign Investor 2015: Bank of Canada governor Stephe...

Calgary’s police chief says the Alberta government has to take more aggressive action on fentanyl if it wants to help addicts and families who are being destroyed. “It is a crisis,...

Penny Oleksiak stared at the wall and told herself to be proud of her performance. Her country already was. It was 20 seconds after she touched the timing pad in the women’s 100-metre frees...

TORONTO - A nameless, faceless figure at the heart of the controversy surrounding soaring real estate prices has been named The Canadian Press business newsmaker of the year. As home prices in Vancouv...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives are already raising much more money than their opponents. But Premier Brian Pallister is now eyeing changes to fundraising rules that on...