Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Work crews were chipping away at projects outside Rogers Centre on Wednesday as Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro was busy weighing in on the team’s construction plans inside the stadiu...

NISKU, Alta. - More than a thousand trucks drove in a convoy south of Edmonton to protest the ailing state of the oil and natural gas industry. The convoy was part of a pro-pipeline rally featuring Op...

PHOENIX - The governors of Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico’s Sonora state signed an agreement Wednesday to study a plan to export natural gas to Asia by connecting existing pipelines to move the ...

WASHINGTON - The Affordable Care Act has yet again beaten predictions of its downfall, as government figures released Wednesday showed unexpectedly solid sign-ups for health coverage next year. The Ce...

LONDON - The European Union marked 100 days until Brexit on Wednesday by triggering an action plan to ensure planes can still fly and money can still flow between Britain and the bloc in the increasin...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A Missouri farmer and businessman ripped off consumers nationwide by falsely marketing more than $140 million worth of corn, soybeans and wheat as certified organic grains, federal p...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Latest on a Michigan panel’s consideration of a proposal to allow construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the waterway linking Lakes Huron and Michigan (all tim...

WASHINGTON - A former Blackwater security contractor was convicted Wednesday of murder at his third trial in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq. Nicholas Slatten, 35, of Sparta, Tennessee,...

LONDON - Hackers have spent years eavesdropping on the diplomatic communications of European Union officials, a U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday, an operation disrupted only after researchers di...

OTTAWA - The National Capital Commission says it is moving to terminate a development deal with Rendez-Vous LeBreton Group, which includes Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, in the wake of bitter legal inf...