Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is encouraged by a broadening of economic strength, which includes gains across 70 per cent of industries, a top official said Monday, in what was widely seen as a “h...

An Arctic climate change study has been cancelled because warming temperatures have filled the sea off northern Newfoundland with hazardous ice up to eight metres thick. Instead of cruising north with...

HELENA, Mont. - Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte avoided jail time after pleading guilty Monday to an election-eve assault on a reporter that turned the race for Montana’s lone U.S. House seat i...

SEATTLE - Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reaso...

SASKATOON - There are no more peacocks at Saskatoon’s Forestry Farm Park and Zoo following a decision to move them somewhere better equipped to house them year-round. Manager Tim Sinclair-Smith ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says sick and injured soldiers will be allowed to stay in the military until their pensions and veterans’ benefits are in place. The commitment comes as p...

HUNTER RIVER , P.E.I. - A five-year-old Prince Edward Island girl is in hospital after a trampoline she was playing on was carried about 40 metres by wind gusts and landed on top of her. Ella Hurry wa...

As the married co-creators of “Come From Away” celebrated a Tony Award win, their hearts were with the people of Gander, N.L., whose uplifting stories inspired the hit homegrown musical ho...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A Vancouver man who fatally shot himself in the torso at a handgun competition appears to have dropped his weapon and it went off, says the president of a target sports association. C...

TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts have signed Canadian kicker Ronnie Pfeffer. The five-foot-11, 185-pound native of Kitchener, Ont., returns to the Argonauts after spending the last season and a half wi...