Category Archives: Canadian Press

EDMONTON - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is heading to Calgary on Friday but says anything to do with a new arena for the Flames franchise is not on the agenda. He says he’ll meet with sponsors,...

TIVERTON, R.I. - A Rhode Island school district is asking local taxpayers to dig deeper into their pockets to fund next year’s school budget. But don’t expect outrage in Tiverton. The scho...

Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital is advising former heart surgery patients about a single case of a bacterial infection likely linked to a device used during cardiovascular surgery between December ...

EDMONTON - Beatrix Massee is a Cree woman from Alberta but she speaks with a slight Tennessee twang - a legacy of the foster homes she grew up in after being taken from her mother by government author...

TORONTO - A woman suffered burns to her hands after her cellphone caught fire on an Air Canada flight while it sat on the tarmac in Toronto, the airline said Thursday. The incident happened around 7 a...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government is considering legislation aimed at tax evaders that would give foreign authorities some access to Canadians’ confidential information...

MONTREAL - A Quebec woman who pleaded guilty to infanticide must take a pregnancy test every six months, a judge ordered Thursday. The 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty in November after her newborn ba...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business...

OTTAWA - Canada’s “flying Taj Mahal” is getting long in the tooth and may be in line for replacement. The 31-year-old plane, used to transport the prime minister and the Governor Gen...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s government has agreed to delay presidential elections by a month as part of a last-minute deal with a few of the political parties seeking to unseat President Ni...