Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Maclean’s magazine is highlighting the gender pay gap by asking men to fork over 26 per cent more for its latest issue. The news magazine says it hopes the move “will stir urgent...

TORONTO - A Statistics Canada study suggests that Canadians on average pay less than $7 a gram for marijuana. The drug is most expensive in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, which shell out $11.8...

COPENHAGEN - A Danish volunteer in a secondhand charity shop has found $8,284 in the pocket of a coat he was preparing to put on sale. Jens Erik Christensen told a regional daily that the woman’...

ATLANTA - Funeral services have been arranged for Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson, who was killed with his Uber driver when authorities say a drunken driver living illegally in the U.S. st...

A man convicted and then acquitted of killing two people in a shooting that sparked terror and chaos in Toronto’s landmark Eaton Centre almost six years ago will have to face a new trial after C...

MONTREAL - The project to build an electric light rail network connecting Montreal with its suburbs and international airport was officially launched Thursday, with the transit system expected to open...

MIAMI - OK, we get it: Drake loves Miami. The 31-year-old Canadian rap star has been spreading money and goodwill throughout the city this week, beginning with a surprise visit to Miami Senior High Sc...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. - When a young Florida boy wanted a stuffed toy, he crawled inside a claw-style vending machine in the play area of a restaurant to fetch one. And, he got stuck inside the glass-encas...

PHOENIX - Arizona State University’s journalism school on Thursday was awarded nearly $2 million in funding to research the future of television news. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism an...

Philadelphia’s first Super Bowl parade provided catharsis Thursday for hundreds of thousands of Eagles fans, deliriously joyful after decades without a title and relishing the national spotlight...