Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Anti-dumping duties on U.S. drywall imports into Western Canada have hiked prices for the building product but have also resulted in new manufacturing jobs, says the company whose complaint ...

BERLIN - A Syrian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of seeking 180,000 euros ($190,000) from the Islamic State group to buy vehicles that he intended to use for one or several bomb attacks...

RIO DE JANEIRO - An attack by members of one crime gang on rival inmates touched off a riot at a prison in the northern state of Amazonas, leaving at least 56 dead, including several who were beheaded...

TORONTO - When Brendan Shanahan was traded to Detroit in the fall of 1996 the Red Wings were engulfed in a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. When Shanahan assumed the Maple Leafs presidency in the spring o...

WASHINGTON - The Canadian government is signalling the approach it intends to take should Donald Trump make good on his promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada’s a...

MONTREAL - At first whiff, the traffic and grime of Montreal’s busy downtown may not seem like the best inspiration for a luxurious perfume, but Claude-Andre Hebert begs to differ. In honour of ...

WASHINGTON - Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer is defending cryptic comments by President-elect Donald Trump that he knows “things that other people don’t know” when i...

BEIRUT - An air raid has struck several cars in northwestern Syria, killing at least eight people, including al-Qaida-linked fighters and a senior commander with a Chinese Islamic militant faction, an...

LONDON - Global stocks rose on the first day of 2017, though trading volumes were thin as many major markets observed New Year’s holidays. KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX closed 1 per cent hi...

LEXINGTON, S.C. - Authorities in South Carolina say four people were found dead in a home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release that t...