Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Monday, June 5 --- CONDOLENCES FOR CANADIAN TERROR VICTIM: Messages of sorrow and condolence have been pouring in following the death of a Canadian woman in Saturday&...

TORONTO - An Ontario regulator says it will not be disciplining 43 of the 45 mortgage brokers and agents that mortgage lender Home Capital cut ties with over allegations they falsified loan applicatio...

OTTAWA - The federal government announced a support package Thursday worth $867 million to help the lumber industry cope with and adjust to the impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood. That packag...

Montrealers can breathe a sigh of relief to learn their air is less polluted than previously thought - due in part to a pizza oven that was skewing air quality readings. An environmental report releas...

SUSSEX, Wis. - A water tower emblazoned with the word “sex” greeted drivers as they passed through a town in southeast Wisconsin, thanks to an ill-timed painting break. The gaffe turned up...

AMHERST, N.S. - Ten Nova Scotia schoolchildren received minor injuries when their school bus collided with an SUV en route to a field trip Thursday. Amherst police said the SUV driver, an 87-year-old ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s supporters on Friday cast his decision to abandon the world’s climate change pact as a “refreshing” stance for the U.S. that would save jo...

OTTAWA - Despite its trade spat with Boeing, the federal government says it isn’t talking to other companies about replacing some of its aging CF-18 jet fighters. Steve MacKinnon, the parliament...

TORONTO - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is beefing up its ability to detect patterns that may indicate mortgage fraud after being directed to do so by the federal government, the agency’s pr...

BORDEAUX, France - Michelle Plouffe and Jamie Scott scored 14 points apiece to top Canada’s women’s basketball team in a 74-65 loss to world No. 3 France on Thursday. Katherine Plouffe add...