Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Average Canadian gasoline prices are set to soar this weekend after already jumping nearly 10 cents per litre since Hurricane Harvey roared ashore in Texas a week ago. Analysts say the hikes...

PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh artist isn’t waiting for protesters - he’s already painting over a building mural depicting American composer Stephen Foster. A statue of Foster elsewhere in the ...

LONDON - Wayne Rooney has been charged with drunk driving and was released on bail ahead of a court appearance later this month, Cheshire police said Friday. The 31-year-old Everton striker was report...

LABRADOR CITY, N.L. - The final day of August felt more like winter along the Quebec-Labrador border - it snowed. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary tweeted photos of snow collecting along a highway ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending fell in July for the third time in four months as strength in home construction wasn’t enough to offset weakness in nonresidential building and government...

BERLIN - A German foundation established to track down cultural assets stolen by the Nazis says it’s starting a new project to investigate items taken in the post-war Soviet occupation zone and ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. job market hit a lull in August, with employers adding a solid but less-than-robust 156,000 jobs and holding back on meaningful pay raises for most workers. Friday’s jobs r...

TORONTO - A young man killed in a northwest Toronto mall was chased into the centre and shot dead amid a throng of shoppers, police said Friday as they searched for as many as four people in connectio...

BRACKLEY, P.E.I. - A pair of endangered piping plovers whose eggs were threatened by the tide at a P.E.I. beach had an unlikely savour - a pizza pan. Kerry-Lynn Atkinson, a resource management officer...

ARRAS, France - Clint Eastwood is in France directing a film that re-enacts the dramatic end to an attempted Islamic State group attack on a high-speed train that saw three Americans take down the gun...