Author Archives: Syndicated Content

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounc...

NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say they're investigating the disappearance of a man believed to have gone overboard into the Strait of Georgia during a ferry sailing. A statement from the RCMP say...

OTTAWA - The federal government may name the winner of the heated competition to supply the navy with a fleet of new submarines as soon as this year. Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procu...

QUBEC - Christine Frchette, leadership candidate for the Coalition Avenir Qubec, is promising to revive a popular fast-track immigration program that her government had recently ended. She says if she...

MILAN - Canada's women's hockey team has lost 5-0 to the United States in preliminary round action at the Milan Cortina Olympics. More coming. The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Federal Procurement Minister Jol Lightbound is defending the government's latest $1 billion loan to Canada Post but says federal support can't be a "long-term solution" for the Crown corporat...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government heads into a legislative session this week with an $11.2 billion deficit, economic uncertainty, and plans to roll back a law on Indigenous rights - and an ex...

OTTAWA - When International Criminal Court judge Kimberly Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain that she can't pay for a room with a credit card - because she's been ...

VANCOUVER - A 25-second confrontation on the patio of a Vancouver caf left a man pushing a stroller lying in a pool of blood after he was stabbed six times in the chest, a British Columbia court has h...

VANCOUVER - A 25-second confrontation on the patio of a Vancouver caf left a man pushing a stroller lying in a pool of blood after he was stabbed six times in the chest, a British Columbia court has h...