Category Archives: National News – CP

VANCOUVER - Thirty registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses in British Columbia are expected to complete their training this month to prescribe medication to those battling addiction to opi...

OTTAWA - A 33-year-old Ottawa man was scheduled to appear in court Monday after being arrested and charged with arson in connection with what police say was a fire at the Canada Revenue Agency's headq...

QUEBEC - A Quebec man is facing weapons charges after RCMP officers found about 10 homemade bombs as well as firearms, ammunition and weapons at his home. RCMP say in a news release that 47-year-old K...

VANCOUVER - A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges. A proposed class-ac...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Flights have been grounded and most operations suspended at an open-pit iron ore mine on Nunavut's Baffin Island as protesters upset about its expansion plan continue to block the s...

OTTAWA - Jewish groups expressed dismay after an immigration hearing for former Nazi death-squad member Helmut Oberlander was put off, the latest twist in the long-running case. Oberlander's hearing, ...

OTTAWA - Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan says Canada can get more out of its marine resources through a strategy that also protects ocean health. The federal government began consultations Monday...

CALGARY - The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence for a man who killed two people and their young grandson. Douglas Garland was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 75 ...

FREDERICTON - An Acadian man who fought to remain in his home on New Brunswick's eastern shore is being recalled as a symbol of the francophone minority's resistance to unjust expropriation of their l...

EDMONTON - Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains...