Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Police say actress Sean Young is wanted for questioning after she was caught on surveillance video stealing laptops and video production software from a store in New York City. Police say e...

BEIRUT - It was supposed to be a goodwill gesture from an energy company in Turkey. This summer, the Karadeniz Energy Group lent Lebanon a floating power station to generate electricity at below-marke...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The battle lines for Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election were drawn Friday as the incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally registered as a candidate after choo...

BEIJING - Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how religi...

SEATTLE - A team of whale experts has injected an ailing killer whale with antibiotics in a rare emergency effort to save her. NOAA Fisheries says the international team reached 3 1/2-year-old orca kn...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrado...

OTTAWA - The economy generated 54,100 net new jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate fall - but the headline improvements overshadowed weaker details: a rush of new part-time, public sector pos...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s usually quiet capital city erupted in violence Friday, as two police officers responding to a shooting arrived to find two victims - and were then fatally shot them...

Fredericton police says at least four people have died in a shooting. Few details are available, but police were asking residents in the Brookside Drive area to stay in their homes with the doors lock...