Category Archives: National News – CP

SYDNEY - Canadian Finn Foster, backpacking with his girlfriend in Australia, says they were planning to watch the sunset on Sydney's famous Bondi Beach when they heard about two dozen pops. At first, ...

WINNIPEG - The board chairman at Manitoba's Crown-owned energy utility has resigned, two years after taking on the job. Manitoba Hydro says officials at the corporation were saddened to learn of Ben G...

HALIFAX - The Whale Sanctuary Project, a proposed underwater enclosure that would encompass roughly 40 hectares off Nova Scotia's eastern shore, needs up to $15 million if it hopes to open by the end ...

OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister...

British Columbia is bracing for another "high impact" deluge of rain that's forecast to hit the province's Fraser Valley, after intense downpours and cross-border outflows last week inundated Abbotsfo...

OneBC, the party formed after a split from the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member in the ...

TORONTO - Members of Canada's Jewish community expressed anger and resolve on Sunday ahead of planned holiday events in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Levi ...

ABBOTSFORD - Rainfall warnings have gone up across British Columbia's flood-drenched Fraser Valley as another wave of soaking weather hits the region. Environment Canada says the valley, including Abb...

CALGARY - The prospect of building a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast has garnered most of the attention since Ottawa and Alberta announced their sweeping energy accord late last month, but anot...

QUBEC - The Quebec government is warning that a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador could be at risk if it's not settled before next year's provincial election. In a recent interview with...