Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Shopify is taking aim at weapons companies by banning the sale of some firearms and accessories on its platform. The Ottawa-based e-commerce giant quietly made changes to its policies this w...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - For East Coast painter Mary Pratt, a master chronicler of the wonders and woes of domesticity, a pile of grapes could contain “the secrets of the universe.” Pratt ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action lawsuit against a website that collects obituaries and reposts them. St. John’s lawyer Erin Best says the class ...

EDMONTON - Air quality warnings were issued across the Prairies on Wednesday as smoke from forest fires in British Columbia continued to waft across most of Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan and south...

SAGUENAY, Que. - Quebec provincial police say two Hells Angels members have been arrested in a crackdown on an alleged drug trafficking ring in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Police say those arr...

OTTAWA - The Canadian housing market is finding its footing after a prolonged stumble in the first half of the year, shaking off the impact of stricter mortgage rules, rising interest rates and provin...

WASHINGTON - The White House has admitted error for its false claim President Donald Trump created three times as many jobs for African-Americans than President Barack Obama. It was a rare acknowledgm...

GENOA, Italy - As more bodies were pulled Wednesday from a mountain of jagged concrete and twisted steel left by a highway bridge collapse that killed 39, prosecutors focused on possible design flaws ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out th...

CHICAGO - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials unveiled some additional strategies in combating Mexican drug cartels Wednesday in Chicago alongside members of the Mexican government, militar...