Category Archives: The Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls "discriminatory" markups in Nova Scotia and other provinces....

Relentless cold and snow are in the forecast for many areas of Western Canada for Christmas, while northern Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador will see blizzard conditions until Boxing Day. Environm...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy has a square glass case in his office that holds a spray-painted pair of sneakers he wore while campaigning for the federal election. He calls it his "Stanley Cup." Fa...

A Powerball player in Arkansas won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04,...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move tha...

VICTORIA - Two RCMP officers in Langley, B.C., had to jump out of the way as a man deliberately used the vehicle he was driving "as a weapon" to ram their cruiser and escape. A statement from police s...

WHITE ROCK - Police in White Rock are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash on Tuesday. Mounties say they responded to the report of an injured person on Cliff Avenue around 12:40 p.m. A statement s...

COLWOOD - Mounties are investigating a shooting in Colwood, B.C., after witnesses reported shots being fired from one vehicle towards another. West Shore RCMP says in a statement that the shooting hap...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras' presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away a...

OTTAWA - Health Canada is issuing a public advisory after unauthorized health products were seized from two nutrition and supplement stores in Maple Ridge, B.C. The advisory lists dozens of products, ...