Category Archives: Canadian Press

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s new telecommunications minister says Twitter is ready to talk about unblocking access to the microblogging site. The state-owned IRAN newspaper quoted Mohammad Javad Azari ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. - Two members of the Kennedy family have been arrested in Massachusetts following complaints about a loud party and fireworks. Barnstable police say officers responded to a home near...

TORONTO - TransUnion Canada says the average amount owing on mortgages was up nearly five per cent in the second quarter, even though a change in Ontario regulations last spring appears to have reduce...

TAMPA, Fla. - The friendship of the four young roommates - though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division - never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was ...

MONTREAL - More anti-migrant banners have popped up in Quebec, this time in Montreal where many asylum seekers are being temporarily housed. The banners were posted at various sites either late Sunday...

MIAMI - Rafael “Felo” Ramirez, a Hall of Fame baseball radio broadcaster who was the signature voice for millions of Spanish-speaking sports fans over three decades, has died. He was 94. T...

WASHINGTON - Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, blasted as “adorably out of touch” a person who criticized her Instagram post in which Linton depicted her design...

STRATFORD, P.E.I. - A father who was irked at a parking spot for new mothers at a P.E.I. grocery store has successfully prodded Sobeys to include new dads too. On Monday, Justin Simard was on his way ...

BEIRUT - Syrian state media and opposition activists said Tuesday that airstrikes on the northern city of Raqqa have killed dozens of civilians. U.S.-backed Syrian opposition fighters have been trying...

GENEVA - A new United Nations report urges Iraq’s government to do more to help thousands of women and girls who faced rape, sexual abuse and other violations by the Islamic State group. The rep...