Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Two Toronto-area men have been charged in an 18-month, seven-province investigation into a human trafficking ring that allegedly forced ”numerous” Nova Scotia women into the sex ...

Gilead Sciences will pay $11.9 billion in cash to buy Kite Pharma and plant a stake in an emerging area of cancer treatments that train a patient’s immune cells to attack tumors. Kite’s po...

HAMILTON - Art Briles, who was fired last year as the head football coach at Baylor in the wake of a sexual assault scandal within his program, has joined the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats as an ass...

CALGARY - Canadian gasoline prices are expected to rise this week after widespread flooding from tropical storm Harvey forced many refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast to shut down. Wholesale gasoline p...

Hillary Clinton is stopping in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to promote her upcoming book “What Happened.” Her publisher Simon and Schuster says the book is Clinton’s “most p...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Tennessee theatre has cancelled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film. Officials at Memphis&#...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia’s premier spent Monday touring some communities affected by this year’s unprecedented wildfire season, promising financial assistance but cautioning it wi...

PARIS - The French presidential palace has a new occupant. Nemo has taken his first steps as the country’s “first dog” after being adopted by President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, ...

WHITEHORSE - A reality TV star in Yukon has been ordered to pay $31,000 in fines for violating the territory’s Waters Act. Tony Beets was sentenced in Whitehorse last week after being convicted ...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge has ordered a mental health assessment for a Toronto-area woman facing terror charges in an alleged attack at a Canadian Tire store. Justice Kimberley Crosbie said Monday th...