Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - When it comes to winning over Canadian golfers, it helps to know someone. Ed Byman has that covered. Try this on for bona fides: Byman - a former PGA Tour player and veteran of the Canadian T...

TORONTO - Canada’s major cities are vying to become Amazon’s second home, with the mayors of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal all planning to pitch the technology giant on their virtues. Am...

GENEVA - The maker of Hot Pockets wants to go vegetarian, California-style. Nestle, the world’s biggest food and drinks company, is buying husband-and-wife startup Sweet Earth, which sells froze...

BOISE, Idaho - Heavy winter snow and a very wet spring in the Western U.S. generated predictions the 2017 wildfire season would be tame. But it’s shaping up to be one of the worst in U.S. histor...

MIAMI - Irma trained its sights on Florida and officials warned more than 5 million people that time was running out Friday and ordered them to evacuate ahead of the deadly hurricane as it followed a ...

LONDON - Prince George went to school for the first time Thursday, but it was a rite of passage missed by his mother, who is struggling with acute morning sickness in the early stages of her third pre...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick man who sexually assaulted an underage girl is now suing her family and friends for brutally beating him. The man’s lawyer, David Lutz, says it was not up to t...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 7 --- PM TRUDEAU NOT BACKING DOWN ON TAX PLAN Justin Trudeau insists that his government won’t back down on a controversial plan to end tax provisio...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Justin Trudeau got a small taste of the kind of grief his backbenchers have been getting over the government’s plan to end what it calls unfair tax advantages for wealthy small b...

TORONTO - Playing notoriously hot-headed tennis legend John McEnroe on the big screen was “quite cathartic” for Shia LaBeouf. “To watch it now is something I’m very proud of,&#...