Category Archives: Canadian Press

Five stories in the news for Thursday, July 26 --- HUNDREDS ATTEND TORONTO VIGIL A group of young girls clung to each other Wednesday evening in Toronto’s Greektown as they mourned a friend and ...

HALIFAX - The mastermind and the enforcer of a sophisticated multimillion-dollar stock market scheme have been granted bail, a day after being sentenced to prison for conspiracy and fraud in one of th...

VICTORIA - A Vancouver businessman banned for life from entering the United States over his investments in American marijuana companies says he plans to seek a waiver that permits him to cross the bor...

TORONTO - The case of rock star Jacob Hoggard, who faces three sex-related charges, was put over to next month after a brief court hearing in Toronto on Thursday. Hoggard, the frontman of the band Hed...

TORONTO - Blayne Lastman, the son of former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, announced Thursday that he will not be seeking the city’s top job, ending weeks of speculation that he would try to follow ...

MONTREAL - Nearly 475 unionized CAE Inc. employees in Montreal return to work today after voting in favour of a new contract. Unifor Local 522 says its members voted 83 per cent this week to accept a ...

AMSTERDAM - Research suggests mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses among Indigenous people. Physicians in the province are seeing ...

As American women seek a larger role in politics, fairer wages and an end to sexual harassment, the Girl Scouts see an opportune time to show some swagger in promoting their core mission: girl empower...

BEIJING - A man exploded a small homemade bomb outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, injuring only himself, according to police and an embassy spokesperson. Photos on social media showed a ...

Wednesday’s Games MLB American League Minnesota 12 Toronto 6 (11 innings) Tampa Bay 3 N.Y. Yankees 2 Detroit 8 Kansas City 4 Oakland 6 Texas 5 L.A. Angels 11 Chicago White Sox 3 Boston at Baltim...