Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in May, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated ...

OTTAWA - A pair of unexpectedly soft economic reports are creating fresh doubts about the timing of the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate hike. For months, experts have been predicting Bank of...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday worked on a plan to reunite separated families, and detained parents struggled to get in touch with their children, some of whom were being held...

WORCESTER, Mass. - The fourth and final suspect in the slaying three years ago of a former high school football star in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty days before his trial was scheduled to start. J...

Another archaic symbol of Canada’s colonial past is under the microscope. The Newfoundland and Labrador government confirmed this week it plans to redesign the province’s 400-year-old coat...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North and South Korea have agreed to hold temporary reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War in August as they boost reconciliation efforts amid a diplomatic ...

OTTAWA - Cities, provinces and territories building new roads, bridges, water and transit systems funded with federal dollars will have to let Indigenous Peoples, veterans and recent immigrants have a...

WASHINGTON - A lawyer for immigrant children who say they were cuffed and beaten by staff inside a Virginia detention facility said Friday they plan to press forward with a federal civil-rights lawsui...

Five stories in the news for Friday, June 22 --- PROTEST TEEPEE BACK UP AT SASK. LEGISLATURE To the sound of beating drums and applause, people put up a teepee outside the Saskatchewan legislature onl...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver man who sold bottles of “Hot Dog Water” for nearly $40 each says he was trying to see how marketing of health claims backed by supposed science amounts to quick sal...