Category Archives: Canadian Press

Ontario launched its buck-a-beer plan Tuesday by offering “non-financial incentives” to brewers who sell their beer for $1, prompting critics to question the Progressive Conservative gover...

NANAIMO, B.C. - A logging company employee has died while working at a wildfire in the Nanaimo Lakes area on Vancouver Island. The province’s workplace safety authority confirmed a TimberWest em...

TORONTO - As Saudi Arabia continues to escalate its political dispute with Canada, experts say Canadian businesses shouldn’t expect any quick resolution. On Tuesday the loonie dipped following a...

LAVAL, Que. - Police say brazen thieves have managed to steal a half-million dollars worth of goods, mostly hockey equipment, from a sports store north of Montreal. Authorities in Laval says the theft...

VALHALLA, N.Y. - A man who said he wanted to end his ailing wife’s suffering shot her to death in her bed at a suburban New York hospital Wednesday and then killed himself, police said. Richard ...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas added her name Wednesday to her party’s increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first...

NISKU, Alta. - The RCMP has recovered nine of 10 expensive bicycles that were stolen earlier this summer from a teenage Malaysian cycling team training in Edmonton. The bikes - believed to be worth mo...

MONTREAL - Longtime Quebec Liberal John Ciaccia, whose quarter century in provincial politics was marked by a stint as native affairs minister during the explosive Oka Crisis in 1990, has died. Ciacci...

NEW YORK - Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of New York was arrested Wednesday on charges he fed inside information he gleaned from sitting on the board of a biotechnology corporation to his s...

The good news for Johnny Manziel and the Montreal Alouettes is, theoretically speaking, there’s nowhere to go but up. Manziel’s first CFL regular-season appearance last week was one to for...