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House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 04, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...
Jan 04, 2020

House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 04, 2020

Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
NEW YORK - Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than ...
Jan 04, 2020

UNBC Timberwolves basketball teams struggle in first games back
CALGARY - The UNBC Timberwolves basketball season tipped off is a losing fashion for both the men and women teams. Both University of Calgary Dinos teams remain undefeated on the season after Friday's...
Jan 04, 2020

'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead
REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...
Jan 04, 2020

Kings ride hot start to win third straight
LANGLEY - It was just the start the Prince George Spruce Kings wanted for 2020, a 4-3 win over the Langley Rivermen.First period goals by Corey Cunningham, Evan Orr, and Nick Bochen catapulted the Kin...
Jan 04, 2020 Courtesy Prince George Spruce Kings

Morozov scores in overtime as Russia beats Sweden 5-4 in world junior semis
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Russia will play for gold at the world junior hockey championship. Ivan Morozov scored his second goal of the game at 3:24 of overtime Saturday to lead his country ...
Jan 04, 2020

Montreal aircraft refuellers sit down with mediators as strike hits third day
The union representing employees who refuel the planes at two Montreal airports met with mediators Thursday as their strike dragged into its third day. Union representatives sat down with mediato...
Jan 04, 2020

Alberta reports first severe vaping-related lung illness to Public Health Agency
EDMONTON - Alberta has reported its first case of a severe vaping-related lung illness after treating a patient in hospital who was having difficulty breathing. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medi...
Jan 04, 2020