Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A Cape Breton man has struck it rich in the lottery for the second time in seven years. Raymond Lillington and his wife Gaye, of Dingwall, N.S., travelled to Halifax today where they were aw...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his unborn baby to death will spend at least 15 years in prison before he's eligible for parole. Sofiane Ghazi received his sentence ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 19, 2020: There are 123,154 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,252 confirmed (including 5,727 deaths, 54,083 res...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...

OTTAWA - Thousands of pages of newly released documents back up the Trudeau government's contention that it was federal public servants who recommended a student service grant program be adm...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to come back with a new throne speech next month to reset his Liberal government's agenda in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau sa...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 19 ... What...

FREDERICTON - Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is in Moncton today on the second day of New Brunswick's election campaign. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers will be campaigning in Sai...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Andrew Furey will be sworn in as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador today. The surgeon and charity CEO from a political family was elected Liberal leader Aug. 3 and will replace D...

OTTAWA - The organization that provides civilian oversight of RCMP has launched an investigation into the conduct of Mounties involved in the June 1 arrest of an Inuk man in Nunavut, including wh...