Articles by The Canadian Press

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — LANIGAN, Sask. — Saskatchewan's public safety agency says crews are working in frigid temperatures as they continue to battle a fire that started when a freight train carrying crude oil derailed. The province says crews are taking precautions as Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for the area with wind-chill values in the -30s C. Canadian Pacific Railway reported the train derailed early […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — VAUGHAN, Ont. — Embattled cannabis company CannTrust Holdings Inc. says it has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that its shares are too low to continue to be listed on the stock market. The U.S. stock market requires the closing price of a listed company's common shares to be at least US$1 per […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says he plans to keep building economic ties between his province and China, even though he opposes its ongoing detention of two Canadians. McNeil says he raised his recent trip to China when he sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Tuesday, one of a series of […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says he plans to keep building economic ties between his province and China, even though he opposes its ongoing detention of two Canadians. McNeil says he raised his recent trip to China when he sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Tuesday, one of a series of […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — VANCOUVER — Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has won an application for more documents to be disclosed as she alleges she faced an abuse of process during her arrest at Vancouver's airport last year. Justice Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court says Meng has met the test for further disclosure but her ruling doesn't predict or imply […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — VANCOUVER — Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has won an application for more documents to be disclosed as she alleges she faced an abuse of process during her arrest at Vancouver's airport last year. Justice Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court says Meng has met the test for further disclosure but her ruling doesn't predict or imply […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A blogger who allegedly glorified the gunman behind Montreal's 1989 Ecole polytechnique massacre will return to court Thursday for a bail hearing. Jean-Claude Rochefort's lawyer and the Crown agreed to postpone the hearing originally set for Tuesday due to the estimated length of the procedure. Rochefort, 70, is facing charges of inciting hatred towards women after […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — Alberta's health minister says he aims to make the province a national leader on meeting surgery wait-time targets by building more operating rooms and using more private clinics. Tyler Shandro says the goal is to have 80,000 more surgeries done over the next 3 1/2 years. "We're going to have the best access to scheduled […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — WHITEHORSE — Officials in Yukon have issued a public warning after three deaths in three weeks linked to illegal drugs contaminated with fentanyl. Chief coroner Heather Jones says the territory had one opioid-related fatality all year before the three deaths between Nov. 9 and Nov. 30. She says all three people were regular drug users […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — High on the Chilcotin plateau in British Columbia's Interior, the chief of a local First Nation says the traditional diet of its members is threatened by a landslide more than 150 kilometre away. Tl'etinqox Chief Joe Alphonse, who also represents five other local nations as tribal chairman of the Tsilhqot'in National Government, says […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,950.70, down 0.15 of a point.) Dream Global Real Estate Investment Trust. (TSX:DRG.UN). Real estate. Up three cents, or 0.18 per cent, to $16.78 on 6.4 million shares. Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Down 14 cents, or 4.05 per […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say 18 staff and students of a high school west of Toronto had to deal with irritated eyes and throats on Tuesday after someone allegedly released an unidentified spray in the cafeteria. The Peel District School Board says the incident took place at around 12:45 p.m. at Castlebrooke Secondary School in Brampton, Ont. Peel Regional […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — As two imprisoned Canadians face trials in Chinese courts where convictions are virtually assured, MPs prepared Tuesday to press ahead with a parliamentary review of the Liberals' policies toward China. Neither Michael Spavor nor Michael Kovrig has seen a lawyer or family in the year since they were each detained in what is widely seen as retribution for […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — As two imprisoned Canadians face trials in Chinese courts where convictions are virtually assured, MPs prepared Tuesday to press ahead with a parliamentary review of the Liberals' policies toward China. Neither Michael Spavor nor Michael Kovrig has seen a lawyer or family in the year since they were each detained in what is widely seen as retribution for […]

Dec 10 2019 — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — As two imprisoned Canadians face trials in Chinese courts where convictions are virtually assured, MPs prepared Tuesday to press ahead with a parliamentary review of the Liberals' policies toward China. Neither Michael Spavor nor Michael Kovrig has seen a lawyer or family in the year since they were each detained in what is widely seen as retribution for […]