Category Archives: Canadian Press

CARSON CITY, Nev. - Nevada’s marijuana regulators are working furiously to launch recreational sales on July 1, a fast-approaching deadline that could hinge on a court deciding whether the power...

TOKYO - Japan’s coast guard is investigating why it took nearly an hour for a deadly collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship to be reported. A coast guard official said Mond...

PARIS - The French president descended from the skies in a European military plane and Airbus and Boeing raced to impress with big plane orders as the Paris Air Show got underway Monday. French Presid...

Six stories in the news for Monday, June 19 --- FOOD INFLATION FORECAST LOWERED: REPORT Canada’s mid-year food price report predicts food inflation will be slightly lower this year than previous...

TORONTO - The researchers behind Canada’s annual food price report say that while they expect food inflation to be slightly lower this year than previously estimated, shoppers should expect big ...

OTTAWA - With a potential impasse brewing in the Senate over his government’s latest budget, it’s tempting to wonder if Justin Trudeau privately regrets his decision to turn the upper hous...

WASHINGTON - Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard expressed cautious optimism after a discussion with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday about various trade-related irritants. Couillard met wi...

BEIJING - Climate change, trade and terrorism were high on the agenda Monday at a Beijing meeting of foreign affairs officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, known collectively as...

NEW YORK - A New York City man who says the city didn’t do enough to keep him from drunkenly jumping out of the back of a moving ambulance has filed a lawsuit. Yaugeni Kralkin says he was intoxi...

BEIJING - China said Monday it would ban a designer drug called U-47700 and three others, following U.S. pressure to do more to control synthetic opioids blamed for fast-rising overdose deaths in the ...