Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is spending $4.5 billion to buy Trans Mountain and all of Kinder Morgan Canada's core assets, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday as he unveiled the gove...

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - A former junior hockey player's journey of healing has come to an end after he walked 1,200 kilometres from northern Ontario to Saskatchewan to honour the victims of the Humboldt Bro...

By The Canadian Press BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women. Brandon Stucka of Llo...

CALGARY - The president and CEO of WestJet says the threat of a strike by its pilots is over. Ed Sims said the Calgary-based airline and the union that represents the pilots have agreed to a settlemen...

CALGARY - The risk of a potential strike at CP Rail could be decided this afternoon once members from two unions complete voting on a three-year deal rejected by their negotiating teams. At stake is w...

WHITECAP DAKOTA FIRST NATION, Sask. - Saskatchewan's painfully high Indigenous suicide rates call out for a co-ordinated, community-run approach to bring them down, says a plan from the organization t...

VICTORIA - The City of Vancouver and Squamish Nation have lost legal challenges aimed at quashing an environmental assessment certificate issued by British Columbia for the Trans Mountain pipeline exp...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA - Conservative senators are leading the charge to water down legislation aimed at cracking down on impaired driving. The Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee has v...

OTTAWA - The federal government has blocked the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned company for reasons of national security. After markets closed Wednesday, Ec...

MONTREAL - Canadian National Railway is preparing to purchase hundreds of new grain hopper cars to get shipments moving after a bill that encourages railways to make investments to avert service disru...