Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Canada’s oilpatch is eagerly anticipating higher prices and profits after Minnesota regulators approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.’s $9-billion project to upgrade its deteriorat...

OTTAWA - Expectations the Bank of Canada will raise its key interest rate target next month were bolstered Friday after stronger-than-expected economic growth in April and a report suggesting widespre...

NEW YORK - “I Am Jazz” star Jazz Jennings says she’s doing great following gender confirmation surgery. The 17-year-old posted a photo of herself in a hospital gown on Instagram. She...

LOS ANGELES - Paris Jackson has posted an online tribute to her grandfather, Joe Jackson, who died at the age of 89. On Instagram , the 20-year-old shared a photo Wednesday of her and her grandfather ...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s government-run cannabis monopoly has launched a hiring drive with jobs starting at $14 per hour, but it cannot yet confirm Montreal will be among the cities getting the first...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - On a mid-November afternoon in 2003, students from Beatrix Potter School in south London were gathering chestnuts for a game of British conkers in a cemetery near their school...

LONDON - The BBC struck a deal Friday with a senior journalist who quit her post to protest the British media company’s gender pay gap. The broadcaster accepted that Carrie Gracie, the broadcast...

OTTAWA - The problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system has already cost the federal government more than $1 billion and could require an additional $500 million a year until it is fixed, based on the gov...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has reduced the sentence of a man who drove his car into a restaurant patio, killing a two-year-old boy, and who months later was beaten and mutilated by an assail...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Immigrants who have spent years fighting to change the country’s immigration system are getting newfound support from liberal activists, moms and first-time protesters motivated...