Category Archives: Canadian Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The third and final night of preliminary competition in the swimsuit-less Miss America pageant is set for Friday night. During the first two nights of competition, some of the on...

LARGO, Fla. - Five months before a Florida toddler was found dead, his court-appointed child advocate told a magistrate that the boy should not be returned to his mother. The Tampa Bay Times reported ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Elvis Presley fans will no longer pay about $30 to visit his grave during the annual candlelight vigil on his death anniversary in Memphis, Tennessee. Graceland officials say the char...

NEW YORK - Designer Jeremy Scott was a man with a message on Thursday night at his star-studded runway show, and that message was directed at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Scott made his trad...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - One of the five employees slain in the June shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland will have his novel published. The Baltimore Sun reports Rob Hiaasen’s “Fl...

PHILADELPHIA - As Colin Kaepernick watched from the apparel giant’s headquarters in Oregon, Nike aired its highly anticipated ad featuring the quarterback known for his social protests during th...

WASHINGTON - Celebrity chef Mike Isabella once had more than a dozen restaurants in the Washington area. Now he’s filed for bankruptcy after a sexual harassment lawsuit. The Washington Post repo...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labra...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - Canada’s seesawing employment report posted particularly volatile numbers last month that showed big, mid-summer gains had essentially been wiped out by August. The economy lost 51,600 ...