Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Allowing the display and advertising of vaping products in thousands of convenience stores across Ontario will lead to increased nicotine addiction among teenagers, a coalition of health gro...

VANCOUVER - Police say 17 banks in British Columbia were defrauded of more than $30,000 over a three-month period by a suspect who allegedly passed off washers as toonies hidden in coin rolls. North V...

TORONTO - Mike Babcock says a lot of people thought he was crazy after signing on to become head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. There were times in the beginning when he felt the same way. “T...

OTTAWA - The newly released North American trade pact could prevent large websites from having to quickly take down questionable material in what is being seen as a potential victory for freedom of sp...

NEW YORK - Major League Baseball is opening October by blasting the game’s so-called “unwritten rules.” MLB released an advertisement ahead of Tuesday’s post-season opener deno...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Environmental groups opposing the site of an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota want a judge to reconsider his recent recommend...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays had the breath knocked out of them barely a month into the 2018 campaign. The final gasp essentially came halfway through the season. Any embers still flickering from b...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jason Kander, a rising star in Democratic politics who narrowly lost a 2016 Senate bid, dropped out of the race for mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday so he could get help f...

OTTAWA - Canada’s transport minister says travellers aboard domestic flights will be allowed to carry a small quantity of cannabis with them after Oct. 17. But Marc Garneau warns against packing...

NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey music teacher and singer-songwriter who performs for children at synagogues, Jewish community centres and camps nationwide has been sentenced to nearly eight years in priso...