Category Archives: The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Alberta's election agency has fired the starter's pistol on the race to collect enough names for a referendum on the province quitting Canada. Elections Alberta announced Friday that Mitch ...

VANCOUVER - The City of Surrey is suing the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Coast Capital Savings to recover more than $2.5 million allegedly stolen in a fraudulent cheque scheme spanning seven...

MARIEVILLE - Two people are dead and one is injured following an apartment building fire in Marieville, Que., east of Montreal. Emergency services were called to the four-unit building on Ste-Marie St...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) - Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceilin...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has dropped the threshold for its homeowner grant program for the first time in six years as assessed values for homes fall in the province's Lower Mainland...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria was charged, the police said on Friday. Adeniyi Mobolaji K...

Some of the 19 migrants of Haitian origin arrested in Quebec on Christmas Day have been deported to the United States. Canada Border Services Agency says the migrants' asylum claims were processed and...

MONTREAL - A Quebec ski resort suspended operations on Friday after its unionized workforce walked off the job, leaving one of the province's most renowned winter playgrounds closed indefinitely. Earl...

SURREY - Two people have been critically injured in a crash involving a tractor trailer and two smaller vehicles in Metro Vancouver on New Year's Day. Surrey police say the crash happened around 5:20 ...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating two separate shootings that happened overnight that saw one man injured. Surrey police say the first shooting happened around 11:45 p.m., when office...